Fig. 19.1 Adolph Erdmann, founder of the Long Island Society of Anesthetists (LISA). (From the Wood Memorial Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, Park Ridge, IL) Erdmann was not the first to believe…
Fig. 4.1 John Snow Snow Tells How to Give Anesthesia In 1847, the medical community needed to know how to deliver anesthesia smoothly and safely and how to control the…
Date Country City Anesthesia Surgery Anesthetist 11 Mar 1847 Cuba La Habana Ether Hydrocele V de Castro 29 Mar 1847 Mexico Velacruz Ether Wound repair E Barton 29 Apr 1847…
Fig. 31.1 Seishu Hanaoka. (Open source) In 1850, Seikei Sugita (1817–1859) translated the Dutch version of J. Schlesinger’s monograph on ether anesthesia (in German) into Japanese. He also coined the…
Fig. 46.1 Edmund Andrews. (Photograph of portrait, Feinberg School of Medicine Library, courtesy of the EIE collection) The First Half of the Twentieth Century The first half of the twentieth…
Fig. 51.1 Carl Koller (1857–1944) is recognized as the discoverer of the usefulness of cocaine for local anesthesia. (Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD) While Koller is…
Fig. 8.1 Countries with more anesthetists than the median in 2006, of 160 members, formed societies roughly one-and-a-half to three decades sooner than those having less than the median. (Data…
Fig. 13.1 Six to thirteen new anesthesia related drugs were introduced in each decade between 1940 and 2000. But from 2000 to 2013 only a single medication, sugammadex was introduced…
Fig. 26.1 Pedro Van der Linden (standing), Surgeon in Chief to the Mexican Army, after performing his first amputation in a patient anesthetized with ether. Two soldiers hold the wounded…
Fig. 10.1 The cumulative number of anesthetic societies in the world continued to grow’by 18’in the 1970s. Most arose in developing countries Anesthesia also attracted women into the specialty. The…
