Anaesthesia Essays on Its History
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Anaesthesia Essays on Its History Edited by Joseph Rupreht, Marius Jan van Lieburg, J ohn Alfred Lee, Wilhelm Erdmann Foreword by Thomas E. Keys
With 76 Figures and 28 Tables
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Joseph Rupreht, M.D. Dept. of Anaesthesiology, Erasmus University Rotterdam The Netherlands and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Marius Jan van Lieburg, Medical Historian Free University Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam The Netherlands John Alfred Lee, F.F.A.R.C.S. 73 Kings Road, Westc1iff-on-Sea, Essex, SS08PH United Kingdom Wilhelm Erdmann, M.D., Ph.D. Dept. of Anaesthesiology, Erasmus University Rotterdam The Netherlands
1st print 1985 2nd print 1998
ISBN -13: 978-3-540-13255-4 e-ISBN-13:978-3-642-69636-7 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-69636-7
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Foreword to the second print
Following the success of the First International Symposium on the History of Modern Anaesthesia (1st ISHA), Rotterdam, May 1982, an international editorial board prepared majority of papers for print. Additional editing was performed by the SpringerVerlag staff. In 1985, two thousand volumes of the book Anaesthesia - Essays on Its History - were printed. Within two years the book was out of print and has become a much sought collector's item. The book became a popular source of scientific references. The 1st ISHA was followed, at five-year intervals by memorable meetings in London, Atlanta and Hamburg. Interest in these meetings has increased so much that the 2001-Santiago de Compostela ISHA will be the first at a four-year interval. Each ISHA meeting was followed by printed proceedings. In parallel to the ISHA meetings historians of anaesthesia organized and present their papers at regular society meetings. The ever-increasing wave of interest in the history of anaesthesia left many potential buyers of the "Essays-1985" empty-handed. The Department of Anaesthesia at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam responded to the demand for
