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GENERAL ARTICLE

Gaston Labat’s Regional Anesthesia: The Missing Years

Claude A. Vachon, MD^*, Douglas R. Bacon, MD, MA, and Steven H. Rose, MD

From the *Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, Louisiana; and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.

Address correspondence to Douglas R. Bacon, MD, MA, Department of Anesthesiology, Ch 1-140, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905. Address e-mail to bacon.douglas{at}mayo.edu.

Gaston Labat’s textbook Regional Anesthesia: Its Technique and Clinical Application was one of the earliest regional anesthesia texts, and certainly one of the most successful. Although Dr. Labat was working on a third edition at the time of his death, its fate and the reason for a more than 30-year delay in publishing a third edition have often been speculated upon. A search of the John S. Lundy Archive revealed communications between Dr. Lundy and Labat’s widow which help explain the delay. Further searches into the collections of John Adriani, MD, help explain how he came to be the one to publish the long-awaited third edition.