Fig. 23.1 John Wright (Photograph of a painting of Wright; painter unknown. Photo taken by Robert Pearson and sent to EPS by Ron Jones) In 1847, Edward Mayhew reported in…

Fig. 58.1 British nurse Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War in the 1850s, is credited by many with having established the first intensive care unit. (Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) in the…

Fig. 28.1 Statue of Horace Wells in the Place des Etats–Unis in Paris, erected in 1910 by subscription by the members of the Franco’American Society of Dentists. On one face…

Fig. 34.1 The cover of the summer quarter, 1891, issue of theDental & Surgical Microcosm issue, published and edited by SJ Hayes of the Hayes Dental and Surgical Manufacturing Co….

Fig. 27.1 Portrait of Bian Que. the earliest known physician of ancient China. (Courtesy of the Chinese Society of Anesthesiology, Beijing, China.) Documents from the Eastern Han Dynasty(25CE-220CE) and the…

Fig. 40.1 Lewis Sheiner’Visionary Pharmacologist (1940–2004) Shafer started closer to San Francisco, enrolling in Stanford Medical School in 1978. In his last year at Stanford, Shafer worked with Stanski, a…

Fig. 37.1 Isabella Herb administers ethylene anesthesia while the discoverers of ethylene as an anesthetic, J. Bailey Carter and Arno Luckhardt, observe. (From [12]. Photo provided by Dr. John B….

Fig. 9.1 The percent of anesthesiology residents who were IMGs increased to 58% in 1972, falling to a nadir of 9% two decades later. A second peak followed Clinton’s focus…

T Drysdale Buchanan, MD New York, New York John S Lundy, MD Rochester, Minnesota EA Rovenstine, MD New York, New York Henry S Ruth, MD Philadelphia, Pennsylvania H Boyd Stewart,…

Fig. 39.1 The chronology of the major anesthesia drug discoveries began in 1844 with nitrous oxide. Some drugs were more equal than others, and the game changers are given in…