Alice Magaw

Alice Magaw (born November 9, 1860 in Coshocton / Ohio ; † February 17, 1928 in Hudson / Wisconsin ) was an American anesthetic nurse and co-founder of scientific anesthesiology .

Alice Magaw received her nursing training at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Chicago . After graduating in 1889, she continued to work here as a private nurse. Her friend Edith Graham married the physician Charles Horace Mayo (1865-1939) in 1893 . Alice Magaw followed the Mayo couple and became an anesthetic nurse at the “St. Mary's Hospital ”in Rochester. This hospital was founded by Franciscan Sisters and later became the renowned Mayo Clinic. Alice Magaw only performed anesthesia in this hospital. This is why she was given the nickname “anesthetist”. Through her numerous publications, she gave anesthesia a scientific foundation. She also gave lectures and trained other nurses. Charles Mayo also sent her to Chicago for a microscopy course and then entrusted her to run the clinic's pathology laboratory.

In 1906 Alice Magaw was able to report over 14,000 ether drip anesthesia with no death. The American dentist William Thomas Green Morton (1819–1868) is considered to be the pioneer of ether anesthesia .

Alice Magaw was married to the physician Georg Kessel. The marriage was divorced in 1919. Alice Magaw died of complications from diabetes.

Publications

Observations in Anesthesia , 1899.
A Report of 245 Cases of Anesthesia by Nitrous Oxyd Gas and Ether , 1901.
Observation Drawn from an Experience of Eleven Thousand Anesthesias , 1904.
A Review of Over Fourteen Thousand Surgical Anesthesias , 1906.

literature

Volker Klimpel : Alice Magaw . In: Hubert Kolling (ed.): Biographical Lexicon for Nursing History - Who was Who in Nursing History , Volume seven, Hpsmedia, Nidda 2015, p. 174 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Michaela Triebs: William Thomas Green Morton , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 3rd edition 2006, p. 234. doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .

personal data
SURNAME	Magaw, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American anesthetic nurse, co-founder of scientific anesthesiology
DATE OF BIRTH	November 9, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Coshocton (Ohio)
DATE OF DEATH	February 17, 1928
Place of death	Hudson, Wisconsin

[1] Michaela Triebs: William Thomas Green Morton , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 3rd edition 2006, p. 234. doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .