Anesthesiology Reflections

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To read the corresponding historical vignette for any image, just click on the image for the PDF as composed by the Wood Library-Museum's Honorary Curator, George S. Bause, M.D., M.P.H. All images and vignettes were published in the journal Anesthesiology and are copyrighted by the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Safecracker Chloroformed
Alexander Bazooka
Bengue Methyl Chloride
Pepper Jenkins Bronze
Waterton Riding Cayman
Ettmuller IV Therapy
Robinson Induction Coil
Beta Eucaine Bottle
Letheon Ad by Morton
Chloroforming Rodents
Colton N2O Broadside
Skeptical Chemist Boyle
Gold Pender Lemon
Chloroform Blues
Emerson Iron Lung
Fries Reviving Apparatus
Cleyer & Acupuncture
Connell War SP
Enemy Sailor Anesthetics
Edison Etherizer
Draeger Pulmotor
Scheele & Fire-Air
Blundell Gravitator
Hingson's Peace Gun
Physician Pulse Watch
Kirschbaum O2 Controller
Withering and Foxglove
Infant Lungmotor
St. Jacob's Oil
De Motu Cordis by Harvey
Darwin Etherizes Flytraps
Lennox Anaesthetic Wand
Wood, Bickley & Avertin
Paul Meyer Wood Portrait
Cotton-Boothby Apparatus
USA's First Anaesthetist
Cordus & Ether Synthesis
Horton Intercoupler
Anesthetics & Asphyxia
Foregger & Connell of NY
Niemeyer's Hyosciamus
Great Lakers' Machines
Fourneau & Stovaine
Noel Gillespie's Diaries
Serturner & Morphine
Final D&S Microcosm
Laennec 1819 Stethoscope
Hales' 1733 Haemastaticks
King's Oxygen Compound
Lungmotor for Adults
CT Jackson in Ballou's
Crawford Long Maquette