Henry Jacob Bigelow

Henry J. Bigelow

Henry Jacob Bigelow (born March 11, 1818 in Boston , † October 30, 1890 ibid) was an American surgeon, anesthetist and medical historian.

Life

Bigelow was a professor of surgery at Harvard University and a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1846 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . On October 16, 1846 he was assistant and witness to the first public and successful ether anesthesia in Boston, about which he gave a lecture to the Boston Society of Medical Improvement on the following November 9 , which was spread in the Boston Journal and worldwide in newspapers and the news made known about this cornerstone of modern anesthesia. With Morton , the user of the new anesthetic method , which was already practiced by Crawford W. Long in 1842 , he then carried out further studies on ether anesthesia.

Fonts

Ether and chloroform: a compendium of their history and discovery. Boston 1848.
A century of American medicine. Philadelphia 1876.

literature

Oliver Wendell Holmes : Henry Jacob Bigelow. In: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Volume 26, (May 1890 - May 1891), pp. 339-351.
Christoph Weißer: Bigelow, Henry Jacob. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 176 f.

Web links

www.general-anaesthesia.com/images/henry-bigelow.html

Individual evidence

^ Christoph Weißer: First Würzburg ether anesthesia in 1847 by Robert Ritter von Welz (1814–1878). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 17, 1998, pp. 7-20; here: p. 10.
^ Albert Faulconer, Thomas Edward Keys: Crawford Williamson Long. In: Foundations of Anesthesiology. 2 volumes, Charles C Thomas, Springfield (Illinois) 1965, Volume 1, pp. 310-316.

personal data
SURNAME	Bigelow, Henry Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American surgeon, anesthetist, and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH	March 11, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boston
DATE OF DEATH	October 30, 1890
Place of death	Boston

[1] Christoph Weißer: First Würzburg ether anesthesia in 1847 by Robert Ritter von Welz (1814–1878). In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 17, 1998, pp. 7-20; here: p. 10.

[2] Albert Faulconer, Thomas Edward Keys: Crawford Williamson Long. In: Foundations of Anesthesiology. 2 volumes, Charles C Thomas, Springfield (Illinois) 1965, Volume 1, pp. 310-316.