Key dates for surgery

Question	Answer
What happened in 1846?	Morton used ether to anaesthetise a patient in the USA
What happened in 1845?	Liston used ether during amputation in Britain
What happened in 1847?	Simpson used chloroform
What happened in 1848?	Hannah Greener died while receiving chloroform
What happened in 1853?	Queen Victoria receives chloroform during childbirth
What happened in 1861?	Pasteur's germ theory
What happened in 1865?	Lister used Carbolic acid in surgery
What happened in 1877?	Lister became professor of surgery at Kings College Hospital, London and publicised his ideas about antiseptics
What happened in 1878?	Koch developed the steam steriliser
What happened in 1901?	Landsteiner identified blood groups
What happened in 1905?	Novocaine used as an anaesthetic
What happened in 1916?	Rous and Turner developed a way of storing blood
What happened in 1916?	Gilles set up a plastic surgery unit at Aldershot

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	Created by Millie Berrett about 9 years ago