Anaesthesia

Changes in Anaesthetic Practice.- 3.21 History of Development of Standards for Anesthesia Equipment.- 3.22 Possible Hazards of Technical Progress in Anaesthetic Practice.- 3.23 Theodore Schwann and the Invention of Closed-Circuit Breathing.- 3.24 The Early Development of Blood Gas and Blood Acid-Base Measurements.- 3.25 History of Hypothermic Anesthesia by Surface Cooling in Japan.- 4 Regional Developments in Anaesthesia.- 4.1 Foreword.- 4.2 Anesthesia Research Interests in the United States, 1940-1980.- 4.3 Anesthesiology and Pharmacology at Wisconsin in the 1930s.- 4.4 The Edinburgh Contribution.- 4.5 The Yorkshire Society of Anaesthetists, Its Postwar Birth and Development.- 4.6 Review of Modern Anaesthesia in South Africa.- 4.7 The Impact of the Introduction of Curare in Australia.- 4.8 History of Modern Anesthesia in Japan.- 4.9 The Influence of Modern Anaesthesia of Other Countries on the Growth of Anaesthesia in Japan.- 4.10 History of Modern Anesthesia in China.- 4.11 Reminiscences of Anaesthesia During the Blitz and 10 Happy Years in India.- 4.12 History of Modern Anesthesia in Lebanon.- 4.13 Recent History of Resuscitation in Norway.- 4.14 The Development of Modern Anaesthesia in Italy.- 4.15 On the Development of Modern Anesthesia in Yugoslavia.- 4.16 The Development of Anesthesiology in Czechoslovakia.- 4.17 The First Interdisciplinary Centre for Intensive Care Therapy in Prague.- 4.18 From Open Ether to Open Hearts.- 4.19 Cyclopropane Anesthesia: Its Introduction at Wisconsin.- 4.20 The Introduction of Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs intoAnaesthetic Practice in a Large "Poor-Law" Hospital.- 4.21 Reminiscences of the First German Anesthesia Congress in Hamburg (1927) and Rolf Frey's Departure to Mainz.- 4.22 A Tale of Two Cities.- 4.23 Reminiscences of the Development of Modern Anaesthesia in Norway.- 4.24 Combat Casualty Anesthesia in Viet Nam.- 4.25 Early History of the British Journal of Anaesthesia.- 4.26 The British Journal of Anaesthesia. Its Evolution to the Present Position.- 4.27 The Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica.- 5 The World Organization.- 5.1 Foreword.- 5.2 An Account of the Development of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists.- 5.3 The World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, 1968-1984.- 5.4 Anaesthesiology Centre Copenhagen.- 5.5 The Section of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care of the European Union of Medical Specialists and Its Contribution to the Professional Status of Anaesthesiology in the European Economic Community.- 6 Humanism in Anaesthesia.- 6.1 Foreword.- 6.2 Reflections After a 40 year Interest in the History of Modern Anaesthesia.- 6.3 Modern Anaesthesia, with Special Reference to the Chair of Anaesthetics in Oxford.- 6.4 A Worm's Eye View of the Anaesthetic Department.- 6.5 The Value of the History of Anaesthesia for Anaesthetists and Anaesthetists in Training.- 6.6 The Nurse-Anaesthetist in Norway.- 6.7 The Whys and Wherefores of Collecting.- 6.8 Historical Aspects of the Problem of Surgical Awareness.- 6.9 Clinician Versus Researcher in Anaesthesia.- 6.10 Charles T. Jackson's Claim to the Discovery of Etherization.- 6.11 Professor William W. Mushin About Anaesthesiology. An Interview.- 6.12 The National Catalogue of Anaesthetic Books, Documents and Equipment.