Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2226

CARL LUDWIG SCHLEICH (1859-1922) Schmerzlose Operationen: oertliche Betäubung mit indifferenten Flüssigkeiten. J. Springer 1894 x, 256 pp., illus. 23.6 cm.

Although the American surgeon William Halsted (see No. 2143) was the first to utilize subcutaneous infiltration anesthesia in local surgery, Schleich refined and developed the technique for making use of weak cocaine solutions and other liquids. Ironically, although Schleich's work was met with general rejection by the German Congress of Surgeons to whom it was first demonstrated, it was widely adopted in the United States. This book is Schleich's second work on infiltration anesthesia, the first being a short paper published earlier in the same year. An interesting insert has been included in this copy: a reprint from an 1891 issue of the New York medical record by Dr. Robert H. M. Dawborn who calls attention to Halsted's precedence in utilizing the technique but also makes the curious conclusion based on self-experimentation that water itself contains analgesic properties.

See Related Record(s): 2143

Cited references: Waller 8621

Gift of John Martin, M.D.