title: Meandering Musings by Linus Pauling: "American Scientists and the Spirit of the Frontier".
abstract: Hoping to raise funds in 1975 for his namesake institute, Linus Pauling submitted to Esquire magazine a 32-page handwritten manuscript, "American Scientists and the Spirit of the Frontier." Angered when his submission for publication was declined, Pauling eventually gifted the original manuscript in 1986 to his friend, Linus Pauling Institute fundraiser Stephen Maddox, who would sell it in 2004 to the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology. Published accurately here for the first time, the manuscript captures not only Pauling's sweeping metaphor of scientists as frontiersmen but also the creative process by which Pauling formulated his hydrate microcrystal theory of general anesthesia.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Schools of Medicine and of Dental Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 5247 Wilson Mills Rd, No. 282, Cleveland, OH 44143-3016, USA; Honorary Curator, American Society of Anesthesiologists' Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 1061 American Lane, Schaumburg, IL 60173-4973, USA. Electronic address: UJYC@aol.com.
authors.forename: George S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Bause
mesh_terms: D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000266:history*; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009144:Museums; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D010678:Philately; D014481:United States