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Publications on the history of anaesthesia


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Waking Up Safer? An Anesthesiologist's Record
Author: Berend Mets
Price: £10.99
​Available from Amazon, and also https://www.silverwoodbooks.co.uk/product/9781781327494/waking-up-safer

Henry Hill Hickman 

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Dr W. D. A. Smith

£10 + £2 p&p (+additional £1 for 2 or more copies)

Contact Dr Adrian Padfield
a.padfield@sheffield.ac.uk





A short history of the Section of Anaesthetics of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Society of Anaesthetists

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Dr T M Young

£5 + £3p&p

Contact Dr Adrian Padfield
a.padfield@sheffield.ac.uk





Die Entwicklung des Narkosewesens in Deutschland von 1890 - 1930

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Michael Goerig and Jochen Schulte am Esch

59 Euros (plus shipping)

Flyer and order form






Historical Notes on Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

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Dr C. M. Ball and Dr R. N. Westhorpe
               
AU$66 (incl. GST and postage within Australia)

Copies can be ordered at the Australian Society of Anaesthetists website





A History of Anaesthesia Through Postage Stamps

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Dr Alistair McKenzie

RRP £9.50

Available from Amazon and other online booksellers






The Development of Inhalation Anaesthesia

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Barbara Duncum

£10 + p&p

Contact HAS Hon Secretary​







Dr John Snow (1813-1858) His Early Years

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Dr Spence Galbraith

£15 (£12 to members of the John Snow Society)

Contact Hannah Burke at johnsnowsociety@riph.org.uk





A short history of anesthesia in Japan

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Dr Akitomo Matsuki

US$80 (plus shipping)

Further information






Anaesthesia and the Practice of Medicine: Historical Perspectives

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Keith Sykes and John Bunker (contributing editor)

£18.99

Further information





Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia

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Held in Cambridge, 2005

£65 + £5.75 p&p

Contact HAS Hon Secretary





History of Anaesthesia VII (Proceedings of the 7th ISHA)

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Dr H Askitopoulou  (Chief editor)

60 Euros (plus shipping)

See the website or download the order form for full details






Blessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed the World

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Stephanie J. Snow

RRP £9.99

Available from Amazon and other online booksellers






Diary of a Doctor.  Surgeon's Assistant in Newcastle upon tyne 1826-1829.  

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Edited by Alastair Johnson

£6.99

Publications,
City Library,
Princess Square,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE99 1DX



Essays on the History of Anaesthesia

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Edited by Marshall Barr, Thomas Boulton and David Wilkinson

£10 + p&p

Contact HAS Hon Secretary​





Ether Day

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Julie M. Fenster

RRP $24

Available from Amazon and other online booksellers







Memoirs of Dr Samuel Guthrie and the History of the Discovery of Chloroform and the Discovery of Anaesthesia by Henry M. Lyman

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O. Guthrie and H. M. Lyman

RRP £8.66

Available from Amazon and other online booksellers







Wood Library-Museum Store

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Reprints of a host of classic textbooks and scholarly works on the history of anaesthesia are available to purchase via the Wood Library-Museum online store

Operations Without pain.  The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain

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Stephanie J. Snow

RRP £65 (hardback)

Available from Amazon and other online booksellers






Tarnished Idol. William T. G. Morton and the Introduction of Surgical Anesthesia

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Richard J. Wolfe

$125

orders@jnorman.com
Review by Dr David Zuck - extracted from Proceedings Volume 30




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