Editorial

August 2025

Once upon a time in anesthesia

June 28 > October 25 2025
Musée d’Histoire de la Médecine 12 rue de l’École de Médecine, Paris 6e

This exhibition is jointly organized by
le Club de l’Histoire de l’Anesthésie et de la Réanimation
le Musée de l’Histoire de la Médecine de Paris
la Société Française d’Anesthésie et de Réanimation

The history of anesthesia is punctuated by discoveries and progress. The machines, drugs and objects presented in this exhibition have made it possible for childbirth and surgery to take place in better conditions.
October 16, 1846 marked the official discovery of ether anesthesia by William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (USA). Within six months, this new technique was used worldwide, stimulating physiological and pharmacological research, particularly in France and England.

Over 200 objects, instruments and documents are on display in fifteen showcases.

Presenting vENG

We are pleased to inform you that

the scientific programme is available on the website
https://isha2025.com/?lang=en#Scientific%20Programme
The cultural programme is also available
https://isha2025.com/?lang=en#Social%20program

Enjoy your visit

Dominique Simon

President of the ISHA2025









2025-09-16 - 2025-09-17 - 2025-09-18 -    



Tuesday, September 16

Faculté de Médecine - Site des Cordeliers
15 Rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006 Paris

Programme sept 16-17-18

ACRP Room (ground floor)

Catering - Exhibition

Amphi Frézal (3rd floor)

08h30-08h45 Welcome address: Dominique Simon, Jean-Michel Constantin
08h45-10h15 Chairpersons: Dominique Simon, Wulf Stratling
08h45-09h30 History of WFSA - David Wilkinson
09h30-10h15 Safety in anaesthesia in France - André Lienhart
10h15-10h45 Coffee break
10h45-12h15 Chairpersons: Frédérique Servin, Alistair McKenzie
10h45-11h15 Helmut Schwilden and his contributions to the evolution of model-based anaesthesia - .Jürgen Schüttler
11h15-11h45 Development of EEG analysis as a monitoring tool - Valérie Billard
11h45-12h15 From surgical shock to neuroleptanaesthesia - Frédérique Servin
12h15-14h00 Lunch Break
14h00-15h30 Chairpersons: Valérie Billard, Peter Featherstone
14h00-14h30 Claude Bernard’s input to anaesthesia and intensive care - Jean-Jacques Lehot
14h30-15h00 The centenary of the elucidation of the chemical structure of morphine in 1925 - Alistair McKenzie
15h00-15h30 First ether administrations in France in 1847. - Jean-Bernard Cazalaà, Frédérique Servin
15h30-16h00 Coffee break
16h00-17h30 Chairpersons: Jean-Louis Scholtes, Chris Ball
16h00-16h25 Some famous French scientists for the development of anaesthesia - Yvonnick Blanlœil
16h25-16h50 Paul Bert input in anaesthesia - Jacques Hotton
16h50-17h10 How Lyons stood alone in choosing ether over chloroform in France 1849-1895 - Alistair McKenzie
17h10-17h30 Reassessing the Shared History of Modern Anesthesia Apparatus in Britain and Canada - Brenna Connor, Wulf Stratling
17h30-17h50 Moore’s Compressor and Its Imitators: Between a Tourniquet and a Compressor - Jun Parker
17h50-18h00 General discussion

Pavillon 3 (ground floor)

10h45-12h15 Chairpersons : Jacques Hotton, Peter Featherstone
10h45-11h05 Blinded by the benefits: the history of supplemental oxygen use in premature infants - Peter Featherstone
11h05-11h25 A little history on hypothermia, oxygen, barometric pressure - Jan Hofland
11h25-11h45 History of the management of malignant hyperthermia in France - Renée Krivosic Horber
11h45-12h05 Raphael Dubois’s 1884 anesthesia machine - Jean-Bernard Cazalaà, Jacques Hotton
12h05-12h15 General discussion
12h15-14h00 Lunch Break
14h00-15h30 Chairpersons: Dominique Simon, Jun Parker
14h00-14h20 Remembering a painful loss : The Jewish Medical Community in Berlin before the Shoah, Dr. Ernst Silberstein (Silten) (1866-1943) - Wulf Stratling
14h20-14h40 Dr Gwen Wilson (1916-1998) - Jane McDonald
14h40-15h00 Reflections from the past : A historical audit of the Alfred Hospital First Operating Theatre Archive (1884 - 1888) - Natalie Apelbaum, Genna Verbeek
15h00-15h20 Peter Safar : His Fundamental Contributions to Resuscitation and Prehospital Care - Deborah Roy
15h20-15h30 General discussion
15h30-16h00 Coffee break
16h00-17h30 Chairpersons : Hiroshi Makino, Louis-Jean Dupré
16h00-16h20 Moore’s Compressor and Japan: the conceptual birth of loco-regional anaesthesia in pre-Meiji Japan Jun Parker
16h20-16h40 Did French Doctors Active During Japan’s Rapid Westernization Perform Anesthesia - Hiroshi Makino
16h40-17h00 Anaesthesia, anthropology and colonialism in the Pacific - Michael Cooper, Pauline Wake
17h00-17h20 Anaesthesia intersecting with the men and women of evolution and literature - Michael Cooper
17h20-17h30 General discussion




Wednesday, September 17

Faculté de Médecine - Site des Cordeliers
15 Rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006 Paris

Pavillon 4 (ground floor)

08h30-10h00 Chairpersons: Francis Bonnet, Louis-Jean Dupré
08h30-09h00 Evolution of spinal anaesthesia from 1980 to 2025 - Francis Bonnet
09h00-09h30 Paul Reclus (1847-1914): The basics of infiltration anaesthesia are still relevant after more than a century - Marc Gentili
09h30-10h00 From tactile sensation to ultrasounds: history of the identification of the epidural space - Louis-Jean Dupré
10h00-10h30 Coffee break
10h30-12h00 Chairpersons: Dominique Simon, Alistair McKenzie
10h30-11h15 Contributions of American and English scientists to transfusion and critical care - Yvonnick Blanlœil
11h15-12h00 Development of closed loop control in anaesthesia - Luc Barvais
12h00-12k15 General discussion
12h15-14h00 Lunch Break

Pavillon 3 (ground floor)

08h30-10h00 Chairpersons: Jean-Louis Scholtes, Wulf Stratling
08h30-08h50 An Ermold inhaler ) Bruno De Turck
08h50-09h10 Ombrédanne’s inhaler availability on the French antiquarian market - Jacques Hotton
09h10-09h30 The Wohlgemuth apparatus. Wulf Stratling
09h30-09h50 The history of the rotameter part 1 Re-appraising early beginnings in France Germany and central Europe - Wulf Stratling
09h50-10h00 General discussion




Thursday, September 18

Congrès de la SFAR
2 Place de la Porte Maillot 75017 Paris

Salle 315 (3rd floor)

08h30-10h00 Chairpersons: Wulf Stratling, Marc Gentili
08h30-08h50 History of Anesthesia and Professional Identity Formation of Medical Trainees - Anuj Aggarwal
08h50-09h10 Teaching Tomorrow’s Doctors with Yesterday’s Anesthetic - Melissa Coleman
09h10-09h30 Development of a Medical Student Anesthesia History Clerkship - Wendy N’Guyen
09h30-09h50 What Have We Learned ? A Survey of Anesthesiology’s Contributions to Patient Safety Literature - Andrea Vannucci
09h50-10h00 General discussion
10h00-10h30 Coffee Break
10h30-12h00 Chairpersons: Isabelle Constant, Frédérique Servin
10h00-11h00 Pharmacognosy in Paris, the prompt to pancuronium - Alistair McKenzie
11h30-11h30 Pupil diameter and pupil dilatation reflex : a long (too long) way from physiologists to physicians - Valérie Billard, Isabelle Constant
11h30-11h50 A biography of Carl Ludwig Schleich - Jacques Hotton
11h50-12h00 General discussion
12h00-14h00 Lunch break
ISHA Young Anaesthesist Prize
14h00-15h30 Chairpersons: Jacques Hotton, Michael Cooper
14h00-14h20 Management of Traumatic Shock During World War I : An Early Example of Translational Medicine ? - Nicolas Ducrocq
14h20-14h40 World War I (1914-1918) - Developing the practice of blood transfusion and blood banks - Wulf Stratling
14h40-15h00 World War I (1914-1918) reconstructive surgery : its interactions with anaesthesia and the narratives concerning Harold Delf Gillies (1882 1960) - Wulf Stratling
15h00-15h20 What would J Alfred Lee have thought of Nurse Anaesthetists? Andrew Walpole
15h20-15h30 General discussion
15h30-16h00 Coffee break
16h00-17h30 Chairpersons: Dominique Simon, Hiroshi Makino
16h00-16h20 The McKesson Respir-aid Rocking Bed - Peter Featherstone
16h20-16h40 From Mesmerism to the First Anesthetic in Latin America. Alberto de Armendi
16h40-17h00 Evolution of infusion solutions and their containers - Jean-Bernard Cazalaà, Dominique Simon
17h00-17h20 History of the Port-a-Cath… the Frigidaire of central venous access ? - Eric Desruennes
17h20-17h30 General discussion

Salle 352A (3rd floor)

08h30-10h00 Chairpersons: Chris Ball, Jean-Louis Scholte
08h30-08h50 History Repeats Itself : Sister Anaesthetists Anaesthesia Associates and the Lessons We Risk Forgetting - Basel Obeidat
08h50-09h10 The Vernon-Harcourt’s chloroform inhaler. Jacques Hotton
09h10-09h30 James Carrick Moore and the Origins of Brachial Plexus Anaesthesia: A Forgotten Legacy of Moore’s Compressor in the 18th Century - Jun Parker
09h30-09h50 Nutmeg: How a Simple Spice Altered Minds and Fueled Colonialism - Kaitlyn Kulesus
09h50-10h00 General discussion
10h00-10h30 Coffee Break
10h30-12h00 Chairpersons: Barry Baker, Jean-Pierre Haberer
10h30-11h10 123 years of innovation in anaesthesia: How incidents and clinical experience shaped the development of "modern" technology - a shared heritage of transdisciplinary and international cooperation - Wulf Stratling
11h10-11h35 Børjn Ibsen, the anaesthetist who invented modern intensive care in 1952 - Olivier Collange
11h35-12h0 Paul Janssen - Luc Barvais
12h00-14h00 Lunch break
ISHA Young Anaesthesist Prize
14h00-15h30 Chairpersons: Jean-Pierre Haberer, David Wilkinson
14h00-14h20 Is the Search Complete? Methodology for High-Yield Historical Biomedical Database searches - Melissa Coleman
14h20-14h40 Anaesthesia as a means to an artistic end? About an action art project at the art exhibition in Kassel, Germany, in 1972 - Wilfried Witte
14h40-15h00 A retrospective bibliometric analysis of te evidence supporting practice in anaesthesia - Jane O’Donnell
15h00-15h20 From Witches to Wearables: The Journey of Scopolamine in Nausea and Anesthesia - Anuj Aggarwal
15h20-15h30 General discussion
15h30-16h00 Coffee break
16h00-18h00 Chairpersons: Barry Baker, Michael Cooper
16h00-16h20 Pain, Progress, and Practice: A Historical Review of Anesthesia in Canada. Wesley Rajaleelan
16h20-16h40 Dr Mark Lidwill and ether impurities in 1915 - Barry Baker
16h40-17h00 From Sumerian’s Grass of joy to today’s opioid free anesthesia. Anne Deneuve
17h00-17h40 “Backstage contributions” of marketing and manufacture to (e)marging anaesthesia and inhalation therapy – an ontold history of an internationally influential network: Drager-Silberstein, Inhabad and Foregger. Wulf Stratling
17h40-18h00 General discussion

Amphi Bleu (2°étage)

12h00-14h00 Lunch Break
ISHA Young Anaesthesist Prize
14h00-16h00 Chairpersons: Sébastien Bauquier
14h00-15h00 Veterinary and medical research in Liverpool - Eddie Cluton, Jennifer Hunter.
15h00-16h00 Anesthesia and analgesia in wartime Jérôme Arnauld des Lions - Pierre Pasquier
16h00-16h30 Coffee break
16h30-18h30 Chairpersons: Delphine Holopherne
16h30-17h30 Changes in analgesia practice over a career - Kursheed Mama, Frédéric Aubrun
17h30-18h30 Is Laboratory Animal Anesthesia Still Prehistory - Eddie Cluton, Chris Ball

SFAR cocktail reception

18h30 - (2°étage stand SFAR)

Programme sept 16-17-18










Comittees

Organising Committee

CHAR JB CAZALÀA, J HOTTON, L.J DUPRE, D SIMON
SFAR JM CONSTANTIN, F BONNET, H BOUAZIZ, M GENTILI


Scientific Committee

CHAR F.SERVIN, D. BAKER, JL SCHOLTES, JP HABERER
SFAR F BONNET, H BOUAZIZ, M GENTILI
ISHA. A G. McKENZIE, C BALL




Venue

Faculté de Médecine - Site des Cordeliers

16 & 17 september 2025

15 Rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006 Paris

Recommended public transport

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Line 10 station : : Odéon
Line 4 station : Odéon

RER

Line B station : St-Michel
Line C station : St-Michel

Bus

Lines 58, 63, 86, 84, 89.

Access to the Palais des Congrès de Paris

18 september 2025

2 Place de la Porte Maillot 75017 Paris

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Line 1, Porte Maillot station - exit 3

RER

Line C, Neuilly - Porte Maillot station
Line E, Neuilly - Porte Maillot station

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Tramway

Line T3b, Station Porte Maillot - Palais des Congrès





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