Bibliography of Australian and New Zealand contributions to the Proceedings of the first nine International Symposia on the History of Anaesthesia (ISHA)

Abstract

This bibliography records the 88 papers published by Australian and New Zealand authors in the Proceedings of the first nine International Symposia on the History of Anaesthesia (ISHA).

Each ISHA has produced a published Proceedings of each symposium and these form an extremely valuable medical history research resource of over 850 papers. These have been published by a variety of anaesthesia societies, medical publishers and other bodies from around the world. Nearly all of these Proceedings had one small print run and most are now out of print and often unavailable.

There is a definite need for all ISHA Proceedings to date to be available at one online site for ease of access for future historians studying the history of anaesthesia, intensive care, pain medicine, resuscitation and related fields. Scanning of early Proceedings with appropriate publisher, author and editorial approval would facilitate this.

Keywords

History of anaesthesia ISHA bibliography symposia history of medicine

We now live in a time of instant access to the vast majority of all online medical information via PubMed, even that going back to before the advent of Medline (preMedline = pre-1946), often facilitated by membership of professional and government bodies, organisations and academic institutions. This has provided a search facility that will let the historical medical researcher perform an extensive search for relevant literature. Many major medical journals have free access to their earlier publications even up to one year previously. Open access journals provide free access as part of their philosophy. Also, Google and some academic institutions have scanned many ‘forgotten books’ from major medical libraries around the world giving access to previously rare and hard to obtain volumes.

Proceedings of the International Symposia on the History of Anaesthesia

The International Symposia on the History of Anaesthesia (ISHA) started with the first meeting in Rotterdam in 1982 with the most recent (9th ISHA) being held in Boston in October 2017. These are held approximately every four to five years. Each meeting has been independently organised by the host country. The 10th ISHA will be held in Kobe, Japan, in 2021.

Proceedings have been published for each symposium (Table 1) and these form an extremely valuable medical history research resource of over 850 papers. These have been published by a variety of anaesthesia societies, medical publishers and other bodies. Nearly all of these Proceedings had one small print run and are now out of print and unavailable and almost certainly do not generate any income for their publisher when still available online. Many Proceedings are not held by major libraries around the world, especially in non–English-speaking countries, which makes access to a complete set of these Proceedings extremely difficult for the medical historical researcher, and only a few are available on line—the 3rd ISHA in London in 1992 and the 5th from Santiago in 2001.¹^,² These ISHA Proceedings have papers from many of the countries on earth and represent a truly unique and diverse body of literature on the history of anaesthesia and related disciplines.

Table 1.

All International Symposia on the History of Anaesthesia Proceedings.

ISHA	Year and place	Year Proceedings published	No. of papers and pages	Editors	Publisher	ISBN (soft or hard cover)
1	1982Rotterdam, Holland	19851998 (reprint)	78409 pp	J Rupreht, MJ van Lieburg, JA Lee, W Erdmann	Springer	3-540-13255-4 (soft)0-387-13255-4 (soft)
2	1987London, UK	1989	134649 pp	RS Atkinson, TB Boulton	Royal Society of Medicine Services and The Parthenon Publishing Group	0-905958-69-1 (soft)0-929858-18-2 (hard)0-85070-263-2 (hard)
3	1992Atlanta, Georgia, USA	1992	95467 pp	BR Fink, LE Morris, CR Stephen	Wood Library Museum of Anesthesiology (American Society of Anesthesiologists)	0-9614932-4-0 (soft)0-9614932-5-9 (hard)
4	1997Hamburg, Germany	1998	130878 pp	J Schulte am Esch, M Goerig	Verlag DragerDruck	3-925402-00-4 (hard)
5	2001Santiago, Spain	2002	92623 pp	JC Diz, A Franco, DR Bacon, J Rupreht, J Alvarez	Elsevier	0-444-51293-4 (soft)0-444-51003-6 (hard)
6	2005Cambridge, UK	2007	91(22 abstracts & posters)797 pp	PME Drury	Conservatree Print & Design, UK	Soft coverNil ISBN
7	2009Herakleion, Crete, Greece	2012	47585 pp	H Askitopoulou	Crete University Press	978-0-646-95069-3 (soft)
8	2013Sydney, Australia	2016	104794 pp	MG Cooper, CM Ball, JT Thirlwell	Australian Society of Anaesthetists	978-0-646-95069-3 (soft)
9	2017Boston, MA, USA	2018	82390 pp	MS Desai, SP Desai	Private printing	978-1-5323-9226-9 (soft)

Other national anaesthesia history societies and groups publish their papers in peer reviewed journals which are now available on line via PubMed or on the organisation or journal website.³^,⁴ In the USA, the Anesthesia History Association Newsletter started in 1982 and in July 1995 became the Bulletin of Anesthesia History, which was indexed. This has continued to grow and now takes its shape as the Journal of Anesthesia History (JAH) and the earlier newsletters and bulletins are available at the JAH website.⁵ An online resource of the contents from all the published ISHA Proceedings has recently become available.⁶

The purpose of this bibliography is to record all the papers published in the ISHA Proceedings to date by Australian and New Zealand authors (Table 2) to document their contributions and allow for easier discovery of these valuable contributions. There may have been an occasional paper that was presented at the symposium at the time but was never published in the Proceedings. These are not recorded.

Table 2.

Papers published in all ISHA Proceedings by Australian and New Zealand authors.

ISHA and year	Authors	Title of paper	Pages
1 1982	Wilson G	The Pioneer Anaesthetists of Australia	59–64
1 1982	Wilson G	The Impact of the Introduction of Curare in Australia	212–216
2 1987	Wilson G	The news spreads along the trade routes of the British Empire	134–146
	Baker AB	Was this certificate the first certificate in anaesthesia?	176–178
	Westhorpe R	The ‘D-M’ gas anaesthesia machine	319–321
	Ball C	Ether apparatus with an Australian flavour	323–324
	Westhorpe R	The chloroform inhalers in the Geoffrey Kaye Museum	325–327
	Baker AB	The early days of expired air resuscitation	372–374
	Bailey RJ	The introduction of cardiac anaesthesia to an Australian children’s hospital	472–475
	Ball C	Dr Mark Lidwell (1873–1968) and his anaesthetic machine	558–559
	Westhorpe R	Matthew Kasner Moss (1879–1945)	574–575
	Wilson G and Morris L	‘My dear dogfish’. A correspondence between Ralph M Waters (1887–1974) and Geoffrey Kaye (1903–1986)	580–590
3 1992	Mackay P	Norman Reynolds James – Australian Pioneer	279–281
3 1992	Westhorpe R	The introduction of a Mobile Resuscitation Service, 1918	435–438
4 1997	Baker A, Holmes CMcK	Robert Reynolds Macintosh – Life before anaesthesia	123–126
4 1997	Westhorpe R	Alternative analgesia and anaesthetic techniques	421–423
5 2002	Westhorpe RN, Ball C	The intravenous barbiturates	57–69
	McBride L	Spinal anaesthesia – early Australian experience	193–198
	Baker B	Ritchie of the whistle: A New Zealand pioneer anaesthetist	299–307
6 2005	Westhorpe R	Geoffrey Kaye (a man of many parts)	41– 49
	Baker B	Dr Mark Cowley Lidwill: a pioneer Australian anaesthetist	271–283
	Trubuhovich R	Some antecedents of Intensive Care Medicine	333–342
	O’Brien H	Introduction of halothane to clinical practice: the Oxford experience	381–386
	Haridas R	Oropharyngeal airways in anaesthesia	509–514
	Ball C	Gwathmey, Foregger and the sad tale of the water depression flowmeter	531–538
	Newson A	A role for a rarely acknowledged pamphlet	645–651
	Baker B	Australia’s first Anaesthesia Department	741–742
7 2009	Cooper MG, Todd EM	The Huxleys and the Rattlesnake: Romance and Australian anaesthesia in the 1840s	125–138
	Ball CM	Joseph Clover’s casebook	139–149
	Trubuhovich RT	Solving the mystery of ‘Truhead of Galveston’:’The doctor who never was’ – A detective story	181–194
	Baker B	The first successful intracardiac pacing of a human heart: Mark Cowley Lidwill – Cardiologist and Anaesthetist	277–299
	Holland RB	The Australian Society’s Diamond Jubilee	311–317
	Ball CM	Malignant Hyperthermia – An Australian story	321–331
	Drossos M	Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History – Dealing with hazardous substances in museum collections	411–421
	Westhorpe RN	Rupert Walter Hornabrook – Australia’s first full-time anaesthetist	527–537
8 2013	Gascoigne J	A voyage around Australia’s origins … or how we got here	35– 43
	Crowhurst JA, Stocks GM	Combined spinal–epidural (CSE) blockage 75 years on (A)	111–112
	Cousins MJ, Carr DB	Anesthesiologists and the Development of Pain Medicine	139–148
	Todd EM	Sympathetic doctors and suffering patients in the humanitarian age	155–162
	Holland R	Historical background to the New South Wales Special Committee investigating Deaths under Anaesthesia (SCIDUA), Australia	179–181
	Mackay P	The development in Australia of the reporting of anaesthetic morbidity	182–186
	Graves M, Cooper MG	Anaesthesia at a casualty clearing station: review of an Australian anaesthetist’s role in the Great War	189–199
	Cotaru C	Advertising in anaesthesia: A reflection	200–204
	Kantianis G	Synopsis of the development and use of gas cylinders in anaesthetic practice in Australia	221–231
	Keon-Cohen Z	Australian women in Anaesthesia	245–255
	McDougall M	History and development of the laryngoscope	260–269
	Cheung R	What I learned about anaesthesia through five million books	270–276
	Morris GP, Cooper MG	Anaesthesia and the wounded in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, Gallipoli, World War I	309–317
	Merridew CG	IK Brunel’s Crimean War hospital	321–329
	McDonald JM, Todd EM	The sinking of the Emden: the surgeons’ experiences on HMAS Sydney during World War 1	330–338
	Mather LE	1848 and a pharmacologic tale of two cities	369–382
	Baker B	Forward from the first inroad into alveolar modelling: Riley–Cournand analysis and beyond	421– 437
	Holland R	The portable anaesthetic machine	443– 447
	Morris R	The Clover Bag: How relevant is it now?	458– 461
	Newson AJ	Lambert Hepenstal Ormsby: His ether inhaler and its arrival in New Zealand	462– 471
	Ball CM	Foregger, Troup and the Australian Midget (A)	500–501
	Pearn JH	Towards an analgesic sleep: Vignettes in the history of Australian anaesthesia (A)	509
	McBride LJ	Richard Schomburgk: gardener, explorer, farmer … From Amazonian curare to Australian wheat	510–517
	Baker B	Mark Cowley Lidwill and intracardiac adrenaline. Founder of anaesthesia and cardiology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney	518–526
	Paull JD	Medical diploma fraud in the 19^th century: Was Dr Pugh a beneficiary?	527–533
	Loughnan TE, Loughnan ME	Pituri – a psychoactive drug used by Australian Aboriginal people prior to European contact	540–542
	Fahey D	The use of carbon dioxide in resuscitation	545–552
	Carmody JJ	Memory, consciousness and the anaesthetist	619– 626
	Haridas RP	Photography in operating theatres 1846–1946	627– 632
	Haridas RP	Operating theatre museums	643– 646
	Kerridge R	The birth of intensive care in Newcastle, Australia	679– 687
	Lancaster PAL, Duffy BJ	Evolution of perinatal intensive care over fifty years	688– 695
	Trubuhovich RV	Carl Clemmesen and barbiturate intoxication – was there Intensive Therapy / Care before Copenhagen’s Blegdam polio treatment in 1952?	696– 698
	Westhorpe RN	Mortality and anaesthesia: The contributions of Geoffrey Kaye	725–730
	Ball CM	“No experience required”: a historical look at the teaching of anaesthesia in Victorian Britain	736–745
	Brown TCK	Teaching anaesthetic history in Victoria, Australia	746–752
	Paull JD	Dr Pugh, hydrocyanic acid, phthisis, asthma, bushfire and Dr Smith’s fatal obstetric mishap	753-759
9 2017	Cronin M	Museuming: Things museums should be doing (A)	3
	Cooper MG, Wilkinson DJ	A forgotten contribution to early anaesthesia literature: The Chloroform Problem	14–17
	Baker AB	Genesis of the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand	36–56
	Pauling M, Ball CM	Delivery of anoxic gas mixtures in anaesthesia: Case report and review of the struggle towards safer standards of care	73–81
	Lush R	I thought I must have expired – Experiences of surgery pre-anaesthesia	94–98
	Trubuhovich RT	The tracheotomy allegedly performed by Alexander the Great	99–103
	Trubuhovich RT	A misconception concerning Florence Nightingale and Critical Care Medicine	104–109
	Ball CM	An apprentice in Norwich – Joseph Clover and the highly controversial Dr Edward Lubbock (A)	125
	Cronin M	Where are all the women? Exploring the seemingly invisible history of women in anaesthesia	158–161
	Crowhurst JA	The legacy of the Anesthesia ‘Events’ at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941 (A)	165
	Baker AB	Professor Ross Holland and the Special Committee Investigating Deaths Under Anaesthesia (SCIDUA)	171–185
	Ball CM	The Exhibitions of the Industrial Revolution and their impact on anaesthesia (A)	261
	Trubuhovich RV	Fumigation in the history of resuscitation	293–307
	Kerridge R	The King’s Operation: The pneumonectomy of King George VI, 1951	308–310
	Cooper MG	The history and development of anaesthesia in Papua New Guinea (A)	328
	Crowhurst JA, Westhorpe R	A background to anesthesiology in China (A)	346

(A) denotes abstract only.

Conclusion

There is a definite need for all ISHA Proceedings to date to be available at the one online site for ease of access for future historians studying the history of anaesthesia, intensive care, pain medicine, resuscitation and related fields. Scanning of early Proceedings with publisher and editorial approval would facilitate this.

Footnotes

Declaration of conflicting interests

The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Funding

The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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