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Collected Articles
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Biography Historical Article
Mastectomy without anesthesia: the cases of Abigail Adams Smith and Fanny Burney.
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Anesthesia progress · Jan 1995
Biography Historical ArticleLessons from history: Horace Wells and the moral features of clinical contexts.
Horace Wells first used nitrous oxide for anesthetic purposes in December 1844. Although his life ended tragically in 1848--and before he received official recognition for his work--Wells' significance in the history of anesthesiology is now firmly established. ⋯ Wells' story provides an example of how the moral dimensions of actions taken in the health care setting can be understood only in the context of the individual, clinical, institutional, and political arenas in which they occur. Resolving ethical conflicts and dilemmas thus requires clinicians to pay attention to such factors as personal, professional, institutional, and broader social, political, and economic considerations that influence what one believes to be "best" in given circumstances.
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Biography Historical Article
Horace Wells' Demonstration of Nitrous Oxide in Boston.
Horace Wells, a dentist in Hartford, Connecticut, first used nitrous oxide in dentistry in December 1844. A few weeks later he travelled to Boston, Massachusetts, to demonstrate to physicians and dentists the use of nitrous oxide in painful procedures. Wells' unsuccessful demonstration of nitrous oxide for the extraction of a tooth is well known, but other details of this trip are poorly understood. ⋯ The precise date and location of Wells' demonstration could not be determined. There is no primary evidence that Wells' demonstration occurred in the surgical amphitheater (Ether Dome) at Massachusetts General Hospital. Wells' demonstration of nitrous oxide probably occurred around the end of January 1845, in a public hall on Washington Street, Boston.
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Comment Letter Biography Historical Article
Chloroform, vitamin B12, and the tragic lives of Robert M. Glover and Horace Wells.
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Biography Historical Article
John Snow's practice of obstetric anesthesia.
The influence of Queen Victoria on the acceptance of obstetric anesthesia has been overstated, and the role of John Snow has been somewhat overlooked. It was his meticulous, careful approach and his clinical skills that influenced many of his colleagues, Tyler-Smith and Ramsbotham and the Queen's own physicians. The fact that the Queen received anesthesia was a manifestation that the conversion of Snow's colleagues had already taken place. ⋯ Medical theory may have changed, but practice did not, and the actual number of women anesthetized for childbirth remained quite low. This, however, was a reflection of economic and logistical problems, too few women were delivered of newborn infants during the care of physicians or in hospitals. Conversely, it is important to recognize that John Snow succeeded in lifting theoretical restrictions on the use of anesthesia.
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Biography Historical Article
Davy comes to America: Woodhouse, Barton, and the nitrous oxide crossing.
In the final decade of the eighteenth century, a new method of medical treatment appeared in England when physician Thomas Beddoes developed a systematic application of Joseph Priestley's "factitious airs", or gases, to treat consumptive patients. Supported by peers such as Erasmus Darwin and using applications designed for him by James Watt and other inventors, Beddoes combined technological innovation and gas inhalation in an attempt to cure his patients. Late in the decade Beddoes hired young Humphry Davy as his assistant; Davy quickly added nitrous oxide to the armamentarium. ⋯ Such intermittent experimentation continued in the United States and Europe until Horace Well's public demonstration of ether inhalation in January 1845. This paper describes how nitrous oxide inhalation survived in America through the work of Woodhouse and Wells. Traveling showmen like Samuel Colt and Gardner Quincy Colton demonstrated the gas' effects at popular lectures.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Biography Historical Article
Dr Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke (1842-1922): clinical neurologist of Kiel.
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