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Anesthesia and Analgesia—50 Years of Publication

It was about 1911 that Dr. McMechan was forced by progressively incapacitating arthritis to give up his active anesthetic practice, and soon thereafter he was restricted to a wheelchair. At this time, he gave serious consideration to the problem of better organization of our specialty. Even with his physical disability, he still felt he could be useful and productive. At the May 15, 1912, meeting of the New York Society of Anesthetists, plans to form a national society of anesthetists were discussed.1 The executive committee tried to influence the American Medical Association to create a section of anesthesia within this association at its annual meeting, held in Atlantic City in June 1912, but without success.