Frederic Hewitt

Biography

• Born on July 2, 1857 at 52 Westbourne Park Villas, London
• Died on January 6, 1916

Medical Eponyms

Hewitt airway (1908)

Major Publications

• Hewitt FW. Select methods in the administration of nitrous oxide and ether. 1888
• Hewitt FW. The anaesthetic effects of nitrous oxide & oxygen : when administered at ordinary atmospheric pressures : with remarks on 800 cases. 1892
• Hewitt FW. Anaesthetics and their administration : A manual for medical and dental practitioners and students. 1893
• Hewitt FW. An inquiry concerning the safety and sphere of applicability of chloroform in dental surgery: a paper read before the British Dental Association at Edinburgh, August, 1895
• Hewitt FW. The administration of nitrous oxide and oxygen for dental operations. 1897
• Hewitt FW. An artificial ‘‘air-way’’ for use during anaesthetisation. Lancet 1908; 171(4407): 490-491 [Hewitt airway]
• Hewitt FW. The position of the present reform movement in anæsthetics. 1911
• Hewitt FW, Robinson H. Anaesthetics and their administration; a text-book [5e]. 1922

References

Biography

• Howat DD. Sir Frederic William Hewitt MVO MD. Part I: early life and work on nitrous oxide. J Med Biogr. 1999 Feb;7(1):5-10. 
• Howat DD. Sir Frederic William Hewitt MVO MD. Part II: the Anaesthetic Bill and professional and private life. J Med Biogr. 1999 May;7(2):63-8.
• Ellis H. Sir Frederick Hewitt, pioneer anaesthetist. Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2016 Jan;77(1):53.
• Bibliography. Hewitt, Frederic W. Sir. WorldCat Identities

Eponymous terms

• Haridas RP. The Hewitt airway–the first known artificial oral ‘air-way’ 101 years since its description. Anaesthesia. 2009 Apr;64(4):435-8.
• Hewitt’s air way, English, 1894-1935. Sir Henry Wellcome’s Museum Collection