Anesthesia Key

Fig. 57.1 Patient with respiratory paralysis in the 1952 polio epidemic being manually ventilated with a Waters CO2 absorption system Logistics now became the problem. First, supplies of cuffed tracheostomy…

Fig. 52.1 This replica of Morton’s Inhaler shows the reservoir (globe) that contained the ether. The mouthpiece is to the left. A sponge was often placed in the globe, increasing…

Fig. 29.1 Carl-Ludwig Schleich, father of infiltration anaesthesia, insisted that local anaesthesia could decrease or eliminate the need for general anaesthesia. He advocated training in anaesthesia. (The picture, taken around…

Fig. 66.1 Richard Leazer. (From RL) The history of industry’s contributions to anesthesia, particularly the early history, differs somewhat from that of many other industries because physicians often both invented…

Fig. 61.1 A timeline of advances in cardiac anesthesia and surgery. Anesthesia by Morton enabled modern surgery, allowed the development of myriad new surgical procedures. Conversely, as Fig. 61.​1 shows,…

Fig. 53.1 Dr. Ralph Waters at age 65 in 1948 from the same group picture that included Lucien Morris (Fig. 53.2). (From the personal collection of the author) In my…

Fig. 49.1 Henry K. Beecher (1904–1976). (Courtesy of the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, Park Ridge, IL.) Premedication is part of the history of anesthesia and thus deserves inclusion in our…

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…