| Contents |
Drugs and dreams -- Control of pain in antiquity -- Anodynes in the Orient -- Narcotics in the Middle Ages -- The Renaissance -- The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Humphry Davy -- Henry Hill Hickman -- Mesmerism in anesthesia -- Before the discovery -- Crawford Williamson Long -- Horace Wells -- Charles Thomas Jackson -- William Thomas Green Morton -- The controversy -- Robert Liston -- Central Europe -- France -- Nicolai Ivanovich Pirogoff -- Samuel Guthrie -- James Young Simpson -- An anonymous letter -- John Snow -- Death as anesthetist -- Benjamin Ward Richardson -- Carl Koller -- Techniques -- Twilight sleep -- Continuous caudal analgesia -- Endotracheal anesthesia -- Rectal anesthesia -- Intravenous anesthesia -- Spinal anesthesia -- Refrigeration anesthesia -- Three twentieth century anesthetics -- Curare -- Epilogue : Musing by the nameless monument. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-334). |
| Acquisitions source |
Laupus- Dr. William Brueggemann's daughter, Bonnie Stone, donor. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Robinson, Victor, 1886-1947. Victory over pain. New York, Schuman [1946] |
| LCCN | med46000165 |
