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History - Surgery
Important Dates
- 1840's
- 1846 - Morton used ether to
anaesthetise a patient in the
USA.
- 1846 -Liston
used ether
during
amputation in
Britain.
- 1847 -
Simpson
used
chloroform.
- 1848
-Hannah
Greener
died while
receiving
chloroform.
- 1846 - Morton used ether to
anaesthetise a patient in the
USA.
- 1850's
- 1853 - Queen
Victoria
received
chloroform
during
childbirth.
- 1853 - Queen
Victoria
received
chloroform
during
childbirth.
- 1860's
- 1861 -
Pasteur's germ
theory.
- 1867 - Lister used carbolic acid.
- 1861 -
Pasteur's germ
theory.
- 1870's
- 1877 - Lister became Professor of
Surgery and published his ideas about
antiseptics.
- 1878 - Koch developed
the steam steriliser.
- 1877 - Lister became Professor of
Surgery and published his ideas about
antiseptics.
- 1900's
- 1901 - Landsteiner
identified blood
groups.
- 1905 - Novocaine
used as an
anaesthetic.
- 1901 - Landsteiner
identified blood
groups.
- 1910's
- 1916 - Rous and Turner
developed a way of
storing blood.
- 1916 - Gilles set up a plastic surgery unit at Aldershot.
- 1916 - Rous and Turner
developed a way of
storing blood.
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