Scopolamine-Morphine Anaesthesia by Van Hoosen

3Department of Internal Medicine, Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.

2Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University Werner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA.

1Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Pain Management, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, USA.

Uribe 2*, Natali Erminy-Falcon 3, Joseph G. Bertha Van Hoosen suffered a stroke in October 1951 and died at a convalescent home in Romeo, Michigan in 1952.María A. in Animal Genetics from the University of Wisconsin in 1921. Van Hoosen was a co-founder of the Medical Women's National Association (MWNA) in 1915 and supported the career of her niece, Sarah Van Hoosen Jones, who received a Ph.D. She experimented with the use of scopolamine-morphine anesthesia in surgery, received the highest score in the 1913 Civil Service Board examinations for gynecological staff at Cook County Hospital, and was ultimately appointed head of the obstetrics department at Loyola University of Chicago's medical school in 1918. Bertha Van Hoosen later became the first female faculty member of the University of Illinois College of Medicine despite considerable opposition from male faculty. She briefly headed the gynecology department at Northwestern University Woman's Medical School in 1901 for nine months prior to the institution's closure.ĭr. She then joined the surgical staff of Provident Hospital, an institution that also provided service and training to African-Americans. She studied surgery under Byron Robinson and later headed the obstetrical department of the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children (1896 - 1899). Van Hoosen opened her own private practice in Chicago in 1892 and taught anatomy (without pay) at Northwestern University Woman's Medical School. She had medical residences at the Woman's Hospital in Detroit, the Michigan Asylum for the Insane in Kalamazoo, and at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston, Massachusetts. from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1888.

Despite difficulties and occasional delays, Bertha Van Hoosen received her M.D. She attended the Rochester Academy, Pontiac High School, and the University of Michigan.īertha's parents, however, were not supportive of her plans to study medicine and Bertha used money earned from teaching calisthenics and physiology to finance her professional training. Bertha's mother was a schoolteacher and both parents sought to provide Bertha and her older sister with as much education as possible.

Her father, Joshua, profited from the California Gold Rush returning to Michigan in 1857 with sufficient money to buy a house and marry Bertha's mother. Bertha Van Hoosen (1863 - 1952) was born in Stony Brook, Michigan, to Joshua and Saran Ann (Taylor) Van Hoosen.

Scopolamine-Morphine Anaesthesia by Van Hoosen