Maltby J R, Bamforth B J
Department of Anaesthesia, Foothills Hospital, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Anesth Analg. 1990 Sep;71(3):288-94. doi: 10.1213/00000539-199009000-00013.
The original 1858 edition of John Snow's On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics, from which came the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology reprints in 1971 and 1989, was donated to the Wood Library-Museum by Ralph Waters of Madison, Wisconsin, in 1967. The book contains a message of appreciation to Waters, dated October 1937, with the signatures of J. Blomfield, Charles King, and R.R. Macintosh as representatives of anesthesiology in England. Correspondence exists in the archives of the University of Wisconsin-Madison between Macintosh, Professor of Anaesthetics in Oxford, and Waters, Associate Professor in Madison. This reveals that Waters, during his visit to England in 1936, inspired British anesthetists to discover more of Snow's early contributions to anesthesiology, even though Waters himself did not possess On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics. King, a manufacturer of anesthetic equipment, found a copy in the hands of Blomfield, an anesthetist at St. George's Hospital, London, where John Snow had worked. It was this copy that they presented to Waters, and that was delivered to Waters by hand when Waters' resident, Ivan Taylor, returned from Oxford to Madison. Blomfield's ownership of the book, in addition to his position as president of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, explains why the inscription is in his handwriting.
约翰·斯诺的《论氯仿及其他麻醉剂》1858年原版，1971年和1989年伍德麻醉学图书馆博物馆据此进行了重印，1967年由威斯康星州麦迪逊市的拉尔夫·沃特斯捐赠给了伍德麻醉学图书馆博物馆。这本书里有一封1937年10月写的对沃特斯表示感谢的信，信上有J. 布洛姆菲尔德、查尔斯·金和R.R. 麦金托什的签名，他们代表了英国的麻醉学界。牛津大学麻醉学教授麦金托什和麦迪逊市副教授沃特斯之间的通信保存在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的档案中。这些信件显示，1936年沃特斯访问英国期间，激励了英国麻醉师去更多地发掘斯诺对麻醉学的早期贡献，尽管沃特斯本人并没有《论氯仿及其他麻醉剂》这本书。金是麻醉设备制造商，他在伦敦圣乔治医院的麻醉师布洛姆菲尔德手中发现了一本，约翰·斯诺曾在这家医院工作。就是这本他们送给了沃特斯，当沃特斯的住院医生伊万·泰勒从牛津返回麦迪逊时亲手交给了沃特斯。布洛姆菲尔德拥有这本书，再加上他担任大不列颠及爱尔兰麻醉师协会主席的职位，解释了为什么题字是他的笔迹。
