Dr. Cornelis R. Ritsema van Eck: A Many-Sided Pioneer

It was not until after 1945 that the shaping of anesthesiology began on the Continent. In the Netherlands, Cornelis R. Ritsema van Eck was one of the first to introduce anaesthesia as a specialty and might be considered one of its national pioneers. Internationally also he soon became a prominent protagonist of the new specialty.