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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

History of Anesthesia

Exhibiting 26 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1994 CEI Awaken to glory: Essays celebrating the sesquicentennial of the discovery of anesthesia by Horace Wells, December 11, 1844–December 11, 1994.
WOLFE, Richard J.
WOLFE, Richard J. MENCZER, Leonard F. (1917 – 1994)
1985 CEA calculus of suffering: Pain, professionalism and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America.
PERNICK, Martin S. (1948 – )
1971 CEA list of the works of Sir James Young Simpson, 1811-1870: A centenary tribute by K. F. Russell and F. M. C. Forster.
RUSSELL, Kenneth Fitzpatrick (1911 – 1987)
SIMPSON, Sir James Young (1811 – 1870)
SIMPSON, Sir James Young (1811 – 1870)
1861 CEA manual of etherization: Containing directions for the employment of ether, chloroform, and other anaesthetic agents, by inhalation, in surgical operations, Intended for military and naval surgeons, and all who may be exposed to surgical operations, with Instructions for the preparation of ether and chloroform, and for testing them for Impurities. comprising, also, a brief history of the discovery of anaesthesia.
JACKSON, Charles Thomas (1805 – 1880)
JACKSON, Charles Thomas (1805 – 1880)
1946 CEAncient anodynes: Primitive anaesthesia and allied conditions.
ELLIS, E. S.
2007 CECharles Thomas Jackson: “The head behind the hands.” Applying science to implement discovery and invention in early nineteenth century America
WOLFE, Richard J.
WOLFE, Richard J.
JACKSON, Charles Thomas (1805 – 1880)
JACKSON, Charles Thomas (1805 – 1880)
PATTERSON, Richard
PATTERSON, Richard
1947 CECurare, its history, nature, and clinical use.
MCINTYRE, Archibald Ross (1902 – )
1848 CEEther and chloroform: a compendium of their history, surgical use, dangers and discovery.
BIGELOW, Henry Jacob (1818 – 1890)
BIGELOW, Henry Jacob (1818 – 1890)
1965 CEFoundations of anesthesiology. 2 vols.
KEYS, Thomas Edward (1908 – 1995) FAULCONER, Albert Jr. (1911 – 1985)
1965 CEHistoire du curare. Les poisons de chasse en Amérique du Sud.
VELLARD, Jehan Albert (1901 – 1996)
2005 CEHistoria de la anestesia en España. 1847-1940.
CORTÉS LAÍÑO, Joaquín FRANCO GRANDE, Avelino ÁLVAREZ ESCUDERO, Julián
2013 CELandmark papers in anaesthesia. Edited by Nigel Webster and Helen Galley.
WEBSTER, Nigel R. GALLEY, Helen
1965 CEMilestones in anesthesia. Readings in the development of surgical anesthesia, 1665-1940.
COLE, Frank (1909 – )
2001 CETarnished Idol: William Thomas Green Morton and the introduction of surgical anesthesia. A chronicle of the ether controversy
MORTON, William Thomas Green (1819 – 1868)
MORTON, William Thomas Green (1819 – 1868)
WOLFE, Richard J.
WOLFE, Richard J.
1946 CEThe centennial of surgical anesthesia. An annotated catalogue of books and pamphlets bearing on the early history of surgical anesthesia exibited at the Yale Medical Library.
FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960)
STANTON, Madeline Earle (1898 – 1980)
STANTON, Madeline Earle (1898 – 1980)
1975 CEThe development of anaesthetic apparatus. A history based on the Charles King Collection of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.
THOMAS, Kenneth Bryn (1916 – 1978)
1947 CEThe development of inhalation anaesthesia, with special reference to the years 1846-1900.
DUNCUM, Barbara Mary (1910 – 2001)
1939 CEThe evolution of obstetric analgesia.
CLAYE, Sir Andrew Moynihan (1896 – 1977)
1998 CEThe genesis of surgical anesthesia.
BERGMAN, Norman A. (1926 – 1999)
1989 CEThe history of anesthesia
ATKINSON, Richard Stuart (1927 – 2000) BOULTON, Tbomas Babington (1925 – 2016)
1945 CEThe history of surgical anesthesia.
KEYS, Thomas Edward (1908 – 1995)
1991 CEThe origins of thoracic anesthesia.
MUSHIN, William Woolf (1910 – 1993) RENDELL-BAKER, Leslie (1917 – 2008)
2001 CEThe pursuit of oblivion: A global history of narcotics.
DAVENPORT-HINES, Richard (1953 – )
1850 CETraité théorique et pratique de la méthode anesthésique appliquée a la chirurgie et aux différentes branches de l'art de guérir.
BOUISSON, Étienne-Frédéric (1813 – 1884)
1982 CEUnder the influence. A history of nitrous oxide and oxygen anaesthesia.
SMITH, William Denis Ashley (1918 – 2002)
1946 CEVictory over pain: A history of anesthesia.
ROBINSON, Victor (1866 – 1947)