Fig. 20.1 Francis McMechan. (Courtesy of the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, Park Ridge, IL.) The McMechans McMechan’s grandfather and father were physicians. While in college, McMechan (1879–1939) won gold medals…

Fig. 24.1 Diagram from the 9 January 1847, issue of The Illustrated London News, showing the apparatus used for several anaesthetics in London during December, 1846. Both Belisario and Pugh…

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. 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. 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. 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…