title: Special Article: Howard Dittrick: curator to the McMechans' legacy journal.
abstract: A noted medical historian and museum curator, Canadian American Howard Dittrick was a Cleveland gynecologist who served as Directing Editor of Current Researches in Anesthesia and Analgesia (1940-1954). In the aftermath of World War II, even after Congresses of Anesthetists had resumed, Dittrick and his editorial board allowed their yellow, then tan-covered journal, the so-called "yellow peril," to languish into near irrelevance.
authors.affiliation: Schools Medicine and of Dental Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 5247 Wilson Mills No. 282, Cleveland, OH 44143, USA. UJYC@aol.com
authors.forename: George S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Bause
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Edmonson
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000266:history*; D006176:Gynecology / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history; D014481:United States; D047789:World War II