The Virginia Apgar Papers

Title:

Letter from Allen O. Whipple to Virginia Apgar

Description:

During Apgar's first several years as director of the Anesthesia Division, the hospital grappled with the problem of explosions caused by accidental ignition of anesthesia gases. In this letter, Whipple, director of the Department of Surgery, informed Apgar that he and several other surgical directors agreed to discontinue the use of cyclopropane and ethylene anesthesia until the risk of explosion could be eliminated. He noted that though the incidence had not been high so far, any more explosions would reflect very badly on the hospital in the public press.

Number of Image Pages:

1 (49,074 Bytes)

Date:

1939-04-05 (April 5, 1939)

Creator:

Whipple, Allen O.

Recipient:

Apgar, Virginia

Source:

Original Repository: Mount Holyoke College. Archives and Special Collections. Virginia Apgar Papers [MS 0504]

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Richard J. Bing.

Subject:

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):: Anesthesiology

Exhibit Category:

Establishing a New Specialty, 1938-1949

Relation:

Letter from Karl A. Connell to Virginia Apgar (March 9, 1939)

Letter from Virginia Apgar to Karl A. Connell (March 21, 1939)

Box Number: 5

Folder Number: 4

Unique Identifier:

CPBBFG

Document Type:

Letters (correspondence)

Language:

English

Format:

application/pdf

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Series: Correspondence 1925-1974

Folder: 1939-1940

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2006-05-08

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