GWATHMEY, James Tayloe (1865 – 1944)
1865 – 1944
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1913 CE
#5699
Oil-ether anaesthesia.
Gwathmey produced anesthesia by injection into the rectum of liquid ether with olive oil dissolved in it (synergistic anesthesia). Faulconer & Keys report that by 1930 Gwathmey was able to report 20,000 successful cas…
1914 CE
#5699.1
Anesthesia.
Gwathmey was one of the first physicians in the United States to specialize exclusively in anesthesiology. This work includes (p. 334) a description of his nitrous oxide-oxygen-ether apparatus.