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History Of Surgery - People
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- 1Anatomy - Galen- 4 Humours
- Born 129 CE in Perganum
-Train Alexandria
- Father = Physician
- Treat Gladiator + Emperor
- Couldn't dissect human in Rome
- Bisect Barbary Macaques
- Brain control Speech
-Wrote 'On Anatomy'
- 1000's years ideas = framework - 2Anatomy - Vesalius- 16th Century Brussels
- Father pharmacist
- University Paris
- 23 = professor of anatomy at padua [Italy]
- 1543 'The fabric of the human body'
- Correcting Galen's 200+ mistakes
- Perform dissections himself - 3Anaesthetics - Humphrey Davy- 1880
- Discover nitrous oxide
- Laughing Gas
- Used as recreational drug - 4Anaesthetics - Horace Wells- 1844, at circus he saw laughing gas being used and it gave no pain
- Try out on dentistry patients.
- He was first to be anesthetized
- Try show at Boson -> Fail as patient groan - 5Anaesthetics - William Morton- Wells' partner
- Test ether on dog + then himself. Work
- Went back to Boston.
- Give patient Ether while Dr. Warren remove tumor. Success - 6Anaesthetics - James Simson- Ether at childbirth
- Chloroform at diner party [1847]
- Used for trivial ops -> 1st to die was 15 yr old Hannah Greener for ingrowing toenail -> Cardiac Arrest - 7Anaesthetics - John Snow- Calculate dosages for Ether + Chloroform
- Born 1813 - York
- Design apparatus to administrate Ether
- Inhaler for chloroform
- Give Queen Vic. Chloroform
- Published 'On Chloroform + Other anaesthetics and their action + administration' in 1858 - 8Anaesthetics - Karl Koller- Colleague of Sigmund Freud
- Introduced Cocaine as a local anaesthetic for eye surgery.
- Put cocaine in Frog's eye and stabbed it's eye and then tried on himself. No Pain - 9Antiseptics - Ignaz Semmelweis- 1840's, while director of materniy clinic at Vienna General Hospital, he discovered that hand washing could greatly reduce number of deaths.
- Sadly, he was ignored - tricked into going into insane asylum and died of infection - 10Antiseptics - Joseph Lister- Many patients died of infection + septicemia.
- Lister noticed that if wound covered in boiling tar, sometimes gangrene didn't set in.
- Insist hand washing, bandages + clean clothes.
- Invent Carbolic acid spray to prevent microbes reaching wound. Acid caused irritation, coughs + burning eyes.
- D. rate drop
- Some Hated him - 11Blood Loss - Landsteiner- 1901: Karl Landsteiner (Austria) - discovered blood groups. Transfusions had been tried before but usually killed the patient because of clotting. Matching blood groups stopped this happening.
- 12Blood Loss - Lewisohn1913: Richard Lewisohn discovered that sodium citrate stopped blood clotting during an operation.
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- KS4 (GCSE) Year 8 (History) Flashcards on History Of Surgery - People, created by Oliver H on 22/05/2014.
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