摘要：At the middle of the present century, in "a good half" of the cases in which anesthesia was administered in the United States, the anesthetists were nurses qualified by training and membership in the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. Since the contribution of the nurse anesthetist had not been adequately treated historically, -Miss Thatcher, who since 1946 has been managing editor and public relations director of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, has set about to remedy this defect.
