[Anesthesiology and intensive therapy 25 years ago--reflections of a new specialty in medical periodicals].

In the search for scientific publications on anaesthesiology and intensive therapy in the year the medical scientific association in the GDR was founded, four periodicals from 1964 were analysed: Das Deutsche Gesundheitswesen, Zeitschrift für Arztliche Fortbildung, Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie and Zentralblatt für Chirurgie. Fifty-six articles were found, half of them written by full-time anaesthetists. These articles give an impression of aspects of pain relief, intensive care and emergency medicine under conditions 25 years ago.