[Influence of Meyer Saklad's Lectures on the Development of Modem Anesthesiology in Japan -An Assessment of their Influence on the Publication of Special Issues on Anesthesiology in Japanese Medical Journals.].

Modern anesthesiology in Japan developed after Meyer Sakad's lectures at the Japanese-American Joint Conference on Medical Education (JAJCME) in 1950. To assess their influence on the subsequent advance in the specialty, the author surveyed Japanese clinical journals between 1949 and 1953 to find special issues on anesthesiology. Only two special issues were found in the journals published in March 1951 and February 1953. Because the former issue in the jour- nal "Rinsho" was published before Maeda's presidential address in 1951 at the Annual Meeting of the 51st Japan Surgical Society and Volpitto's lectures at the second JAJCME in 1952, the influence of Maeda's and Volpitto's lectures is excluded from this issue. The traces of Saklad's influence are detected only in two articles by Shimizu et al and Maeda et al, who enjoyed Saklad's lectures.