Records, 1948-1974.

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Records, 1948-1974.

Annual reports of the Dept. of Anesthesiology, 1958-1967; operating budgets of the department, including memoranda, notes, and tabulations, 1955-1968; correspondence and typescripts of lectures and papers by Dr. Joseph Artusio, Jr., Anesthesiologist-in-Chief, ca. 1952-1965; memoranda concerning Medical Board activities, 1959-1969; correspondence and memoranda of the Formulary Committee, 1953-1974; memoranda, correspondence, and notes of the Inhalation Therapy Committee, 1954-1962; memoranda, statistics, procedures, and adendas of the Operating Room Committee, 1960-1967; memoranda and standardized forms of the Record Committee, 1957-1967; correspondence and applications concerning the Preceptorship Program of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, 1965-1967; and miscellaneous correspondence of Dr. Artusio, 1948-1961.

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American society of anesthesiologists

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Artusio, Joseph Francis, 1917-

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New York Hospital. Anesthesiology Dept.

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The first use of ether in an operation at New York Hospital occurred on December 19, 1846 only two months after the first public demonstration of its use by Morton in Boston. New York Hospital had no anesthetist on its staff until Dr. Thomas L. Bennett was appointed in January 1898. The Anesthesiology Dept. was formed in July 1957 by the merger of the sub-departments of anesthesiology in the Deptartments of Surgery and in Obstetrics/Gynecology. The first director was Dr. Joseph F. Artusio, Jr. w...