WOOD LIBRARY-MUSEUM OF ANESTHESIOLOGY

Lewis H. Wright Memorial Lecture

A List of Lecturers and Lectures

1967-2006

1967

*Chauncey D. Leake, Ph.D.

Practical Aspects of the History of Anesthesia.

1968

*Thomas E. Keys, D. Sc. (h.c.)

Early Pneumatic Chemists and Physicians: Their Influence on the Development of Surgical Anesthesia.

1969

*John S. Lundy, M.D.

The Introduction of Sodium Pentothal.

1970

*David M. Little, Jr., M.D.

In the Beginning (On Horace Wells).

1971

*James Harvey Young, Ph.D.

Crawford W. Long, M.D. --- A Georgian Innovator.

1972

*Leroy D. Vandam, M.D.

Early American Anesthetists.

1973

*Peter D. Olch, M.D.

William S. Halsted and Local Anesthesia: Contributions and Complications.

1974

Charles C. Tandy, M.D.

Treasures of the Wood Library-Museum.

1975

*Albert M. Betcher, M.D.

The Civilizing of Curare.

1976

J. Englebert Dunphy, M.D.

The Contributions of Anesthesiology to Surgery.

1977

*R. A. Gordon, M.D.

A Capsule History of Anaesthesia in Canada.

1978

*W. D. A. Smith, M.D.

Henry Hill Hickman: Quack or Anti-Quack?

1979

*K. Garth Huston, Sr., M.D.

Gardner Q. Colton: Itinerant Chemist, 49'er, Proponent of Anesthesia.

1980

*John W. Pender, M.D.

Contemporaries of Lewis Wright.

1981

William B. Bean, M.D.

The Dangers of Precocious Discovery: Anesthesia and the Civil War.

1982

*Betty J. Bamforth, M.D.

The Evolution of Modern Anesthesiology Residency.

1983

*Roderick K. Calverley, M.D.

Arthur Guedel: The Life and Times of an Extraordinary Man.

1984

*B. Raymond Fink, M.D.

Leaves and Needles: The Discovery of Local Anesthesia.

1985

*Richard H. Ellis, M.D.

Early Ether Anesthesia: The Anglo-American Connections.

1986

Richard J. Wolfe

The First Operation Under Anesthesia: Robert C. Hinkley's Interpretation.

1987

Selma H. Calmes, M.D.

Dr. Virginia Apgar: A Woman Physician's Career in a Developing Specialty.

1988

John W. Severinghaus, M.D.

Monitors, the Patent Medicine of Anesthesia.

1989

*Nicholas M. Greene, M.D.

They Also Served: Contributions by Non-anesthetists to the Development of Anesthesia.

1990

Thomas B. Boulton, MB, ChirB, FFARCS, TD

Balancing the Anaesthetic.

1991

*C. Ronald Stephen, M.D.

The Great Triumvirate.

1992

*Francis F. Foldes, M.D.

Impact of Muscle Relaxants on the Development of Anesthesia and Surgery: The Role of Lewis H. Wright.

1993

*M. T. "Pepper" Jenkins, M.D.

Epochs in Intravenous Fluid Therapy: From the Goose Quill and Pig Bladder to Balanced Salt Solutions.

1994

*James E. Eckenhoff, M.D.

The Growth of Anesthesiology as Viewed by Artists and Photographers.

1995

E. S. Siker, M.D.

Anesthesia Safety - An Evolution.

1996

Joseph F. Artusio, Jr., M.D.

From Symmetrical to Asymmetrical.

1997

Donald Caton, M.D.

Feminists and the Early Development of Obstetric Anesthesia.

1998

Steven M. Zeitels, M.D., F.A.C.S.

The Origin and Development of Laryngoscopy and Laryngology.

1999

Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Surgery as it was on That Day in 1846: Before and After.

2000

*Peter Safar, M.D., Dr. h.c., F.C.C.M., F.C.C.P.

On Resuscitation Medicine in the 20th Century.
 

2001

Dale C. Smith, Ph.D.

        Anesthetist: Argument, Attainment and Authority, 1870-1920.

2002

David J. Wilkinson, MB, BS, FRCA.

Bart's Books, the Blues, and Beyond: The Story of Christopher Langton Hewer.

2003

Peter L. McDermott, M.D., Ph.D.

Fallacies and Useful Truths: An Overview of History and Science for the Anesthesiologist.

2004

Maurice S. Albin, M.D.

They ALL Didn't Bite the Bullet! Anesthesia, Analgesia and Substance Abuse During the Civil War, 1861-1865.  

2005

Douglas R. Bacon, M.D., M.A

From the Crow's Nest--Reflections on 100 Years of ASA History.

2006

Alastair A. Spence, C.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.A.

The Scottish Enlightenment: A Hotbed of Genius.

2007

Rodney N. Westhorpe, M.B., B.S., F.R.C.A

He Took It Well, Didn't He?

2008

Jerry A. Dorsch, M.D. and Susan E. Dorsch, M.D.

Beyond Blue Lips: Advances in the Prevention of Hypoxia.