John F. Fulton

Neurophysiology, 1942–1948

THE war years gave valuable impetus to studies on the nervous system, but few of the many important advances during these years stemmed from wartime research per se. The subject of neurophysiology ...

The Reception in England of Henry Jacob Bigelow's Original Paper on Surgical Anesthesia

IT IS not widely known that Henry Jacob Bigelows original announcement concerning surgical anesthesia, which was issued in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal on November 18, 1846, when its author was twenty-eight years of age, was reprinted at least four times within a few weeks of its appearance — twice with the omission of the final controversial paragraphs about the patent and twice in its entirety.† The first reprinting, which included the entire text, appeared in the Boston Daily Advertiser on November 19, the day after it had been published in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Eager .xa0.xa0.