Frederic Hewitt
Sir Frederic William Hewitt (1857-1916) was a an English anaesthetist
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Biography
- Born on July 2, 1857 at 52 Westbourne Park Villas, London
- Died on January 6, 1916
Medical Eponyms
Hewitt airway (1908)
Key Medical Contributions
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
Controversies
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
Cite this article as: Rowan Lo and Mike Cadogan, "Frederic Hewitt," In: LITFL - Life in the FastLane, Accessed on March 31, 2023, https://litfl.com/frederic-hewitt/.
eponym
the person behind the name
Emergency Medicine Registrar at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. BM BS, BMed Sci, MMed Sci from the University of Southampton.
Enjoying life in Australia currently with the view to returning to the UK to train in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine.
Associate Professor Curtin Medical School, Curtin University. Emergency physician MA (Oxon) MBChB (Edin) FACEM FFSEM Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Passion for rugby; medical history; medical education; and asynchronous learning #FOAMed evangelist. Co-founder and CTO of Life in the Fast lane | Eponyms | Books | Twitter |