Zebulon Mennell. A pioneer of neurosurgical anaesthesia

Dr. Zebulon Mennell, the first anaesthetist to devote himself largely to anaesthesia for neurosurgery, was born on 15 June 1876. He graduated at St. Thomas's Hospital in London, where he was an anaesthetist. He was also an anaesthetist at the Royal National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London, a post which he held until 1945. His writings indicate that he appreciated the problems of neurosurgical anaesthesia and he was the first individual to work in this field as a specialist.