About the Book
The history of anaesthesia shows the history and evolution of medicine in the last 150 years. It had a strong impact on 19th-century medicine and radically changed surgery, allowing surgeons to perform operations technically impossible before the introduction of anaesthesia. The fight against pain and the discovery of a means to abolish pain had an important social impact, and the history of anaesthesia reflects social history in the 19th and 20th centuries. In this volume there are topics that are not extensively addressed in other books, beginning with a section about anaesthesia in antiquity, and including sections about anaesthesia and the arts, anaesthesia and society and the history of oxygen, amongst others.
Table of Contents:
Introduction. From Rotterdam to Santiago: the five international symposia on the history of anesthesia (J. Rupreht). Anesthesia in the antiquity. Surgical cures under sleep induction in the Asclepieion of Epidaurus (H. Askitopoulou et al.). The history of opium (F. Aragon et al.). Archaelogical evidence on the use of opium in the Minoan world (H. Askitopoulou, I.A. Ramoutsaki, E. Konsolaki). The medical and surgical treatment of the pilgrims of the Jacobean roads in medieval times: Part1: The caminos and the role of St Anthony's order in curing ergotism (C.N. Nemes). Pain relief and sedation in Roman and Byzantine texts: Mandragoras officinarum, Hyoscyanos niger and Atropa belladona (I.A. Ramoutsaki, H. Askitopoulou, E. Konsolaki). Ether, the anesthetic from 19th through 21st century (E. Rahardjo). The intravenous barbiturates (R.N. Westhorpe, C. Ball). Unusual ways for administrating some anesthetics drugs (1847-1969) (M.D. Rossignon). The history of opiates (E. Martinez et al.). How explosions caused an eruption-background information on nitrous oxide (M. Goerig, Schulte am Esch). Physostygmine: short history and its impact on anesthesiology of present days (B. Dworaceck, J Rupreht). The rise and fall of strophanthin (A.G. McKenzie). The history of caffeine as used in anesthesia (M. van Wijhe). The bone marrow as a site for the reception of infusions, transfusions and anesthetic agents (M. Goerig, K. Agarwal-Koslowski). Oxygen and anesthesia. The History of clinical oxygen monitoring (J. Severinghaus). A Spanish pioneer in the use of oxygen in anesthesia (J.C. Diz, A. Franco). Oxygen in France: Its discovery and its early uses in anesthesia and asphyxia (M.T. Cousin). Oxygen in the works of three Spanish enlightened scientists: Ignacio Ma Ruiz de Luzuriaga, AntonMarti i Franques and Antoni Cibat (C. Herv's, M.C. Unzueta). Evolution of the pulse oximeter (Y.L. Pole). Carbon dioxide and anesthesia (L.E. Morris). Spinal anesthesia. What made spinal anesthesia different from general anesthesia? (C. Parsloe). The early history of spinal anesthesia (M. Mandabach). Deliberate total spinal anesthesia: proponents and techniques, (1901-1948) (C. Parsloe). Spinal anesthesia and obstetric practice (D. Caton). Spinal anesthesia in severe preeclampsia: a historical analysis of a reappraisal (D.H. Wallace, A.H. Giesecke). Bradycardia and hypotension during spinal anesthesia: early observations (C. Parsloe). Nothing new under the sun - a French (not a Japanese) pioneer in the clinical use of intrathecal morphine (S. Barros). Spinal anaesthesia - early Australian experience (I.J. McBride). Three unusual reports on spinal anesthesia: McGavin, Pitkin and Tzaicou (C. Parsloe). One hundred years of epidural anaesthesia - the men behind the technical development (M. Goerig, M. Freitag, Th. Standl). Resuscitation. Development of cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation in the twentieth century (P. Safar). Brief history of resuscitation procedures (R.S. Barreto). Small-volume resuscitation - historical remarks (M. Goerig, K. Agarwal). M.T. Pepper Jenkins introduces Ringers lactate to treat shock (A. Giesecke, D.H. Wallace). The resuscitate of the drowned ones in the Spanish army on purpose of one clinical case of the XVIII century (C. Marquez-Espinos et al.). Contributions of the Legion Condor to the Wehrmacht's surgical care during WW2. (R.J. Defalque, A.J. Wright). Pioneers in anesthesia. Women in the first academic department of anesthesiology (S.H. Calmes). Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle (1875-1941) (D.J. Wilkinson). Dr. Jean Henley, author of the first German textbook of anesthesia (G.L. Zeitlin, M. Goerig). Jose E. Usubiaga: a short productive life (C. Parsloe). Paul Zweifel - his importance in German Obstetric anaesthesia (M. Goerig, C. Nemes, H. Petermann). Ritchie of the Whistle a New Zealand pioneer anesthetist (B. Barker). C.J. Massey Dawkins: pionner epiduralist (A. Padfield). Hugo-Wilhelm Knipping: a pioneer in continuous anesthetic gas monitoring during the administration of nitrous oxide-oxygen-based anaesthesia (M. Goerig, J. Schulte am Esch). Justus von Liebig (1803-1873): a chemist's contributions to anaesthesia (W. Schwarz, H. Hintzenstern). Society and education. Back to the future: the relevance of the history of anesthesia today (C.M. Harper). Changes in the social position of anesthesiologists in the 19th and 20th centuries (J. Lagunilla et al.). XIXth century missionaries and anaesthesia in Africa (A.G. McKenzie). Ecology: another A Bier's grand legacy (J. Rupreht, C.A. Baldamus). Por el camino de la anesthesia (A.R. Gonzalez Varela). Causes of death among Spanish anaesthesiologists (E. Sanluis et al.). Nineteen nighty five - a disappointing year for American anesthesiology (D. Bacon). From nurse's craft to physician's specialty: anesthesia specialization in the USA (V.J. Kopp). The development of formal anaesthesia training in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom (C.A. Prusinkiewicz, J.R. Maltby). Aqua Alum tradition in Taiwan: the continued American influence in Chinese anesthesia (P.Sim). Chloroform and the John O'Groat Journal in 1847 and 1848 (J. Horton). A brief history of British 'chair' dental anaesthesia (A. Padfield). Spanish anesthesia. Robert Macintosh and the Spanish Civil War: a new perspective (C. Hervas, M.C. Unzueta). Immediate consequences for the Spanish anesthesia of the visit of Sir Robert Macintosh to Spain in 1937 (J. Perez et al.). Preliminary data on anesthetic mortality in Spain, 1847-1946 (E. Sanluis et al.). Jose Miguel Martinez: Spanish pioneer of the specialization of anesthesiology (C. Hervas, M.C.Unzueta, E. Miguel). The foundation of the Spanish society of anesthesiology (J. Perez et al.). Hypnos, the first Official Journal of Anesthesiology in Spain (F. Lafuente Martin, P. Perez-Barrero, A Casado Merodio). Anesthesiology, reanimation and pain therapy in Spanish and French philately C. Marquez-Espinos et al.). Luis Agosti Romero (1909-1982): pionner of modern anesthesiology in Spain (M. Taboada et al.). Dionisio Monton: a pioneer of modern anesthesia in Spain (M.C. Unzueta, C.V. Hervas, J.M. Landeira). Anesthesia inhalers in Spain (1847-1957) (J. Lagunilla et al.). Chronology of the introduction of the inhalatory anesthesia in Andalusia (C. Marquez-Espinos et al.). First inhalatory anesthesia with ether in Andalusia (C. Marquez-Espinos et al.). Gynecological anesthesia at the Central Hospital of Seville (1931-1935) (B. Fernandez-Torres, I.M. Fontan-Atalaya, C. Marquez-Espinos). History of pediatric anesthesia and surgery in Spain (B. Ulloa et al.). The Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine History Museum (Spain's national museum): historical evolution (V. Ginesta et al.). Anesthesia and the arts. The medical and surgical management of the pilgrims of the Jacobean Roads in medieval times: Part 2: Traces of ergotism and pictures of human suffering in the medieval fine arts (C. Nemes, M. Goerig). How the public successes of a poetic scientist--Humphry Davy (1778-1829)--changed English literature (C.E. Ross). Phantom limb: from Pare to Moby Dick (P. Perez-Barrero, F. Lafuente, M.D. Marques). Explorer, helper, charlatan - German Literature and anaesthesia (H.I. Petermann). Study about the pain (1896), by Pio Baroja Nessi (1872-1956) (B. Fernandez-Torres, C. Marquez-Espinos). Anaesthesia in nummis (C. Nemes). Anaesthesia in philately (A.G. McKenzie). Intra-arterial regional anesthesia: a Spanish contribution (C. Marquez-Espino et al.). The history of the painting "The Discovery of Anesthesia" by the Spanish painter Cecilio Pla (M.J. Rodriguez et al.). See you in the funny papers: anesthesia in cartoons and comics (A.J. Wright). Critical Care Aedicine - its depresentation in the Fine Arts (H.I. Petermann). Miscellaneous. Lost threads: recovering the unnarrattable in the Bristol Circle drug experiments (B. Griesecke). Sigmund Freud and Carl Koller: the controversy surrounding the discovery of local anesthesia (D. Galbis-Reig). Malignant Hyperthermia research in Germany: from past to recent advances (M. Goerig, F. Wappler). History of Croatian anesthesiology (M. Jukiae). Researches on supine hypotension in pregnancy (A.G. McKenzie). A glimpse of anaesthesia at the West Suffolk Hospital in the early 1900s (K.A. Williams). Development of the "lipoid theory of narcosis" in German-speaking countries in the 19th century: from Bibra/Harless to Meyer/Overton (U.v. Hintzenstern et al.). Anesthesia origins of the intensive care physician (N. Webel, B. Harrison, P. Southorn). Author index. Keyword index.
