Day: September 9, 2023

There was a publication called “The Zoist: A Journal of Cerebral Physiology and Mesmerism, and Their Applications to Human Welfare” that ran from April 1843 until December 1855. Initiated by a 19th-century doctor who also dabbled in hypnotism (or mesmerism), John Elliotson. Important to the development of anaesthesia, this publication chronicled the use of mesmerism … Read more

Anaesthesia journals have been published since the early 1920s, although until recently it was widely thought that this was when they were initially published. Among them were the “Current Researches in Anaesthesia and Analgesia,” which first appeared in August 1922, and the “British Journal of Anaesthesia,” which first appeared in 1923–1924. It was eventually established, … Read more