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38 Cards in this Set

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sir humphry davy discovered nitrous oxide

1799

horace wells used nitrous oxide extracting teeth

1844-45

william morton used ether in USA

1846

ignaz semmelweiss chlorinated solution (death rate fell)

1846

john snow chloroform inhaler

1848

the black period

1850-1870

hydrodemic needle invented

1853

crimean war

1854-56

germ theory (lister applied to surgery)

1861

lister found carbolic acid killed parasites in sewage

1864

lister tested his ideas

1865

most operations done in antiseptic conditions

1890

steralized rubber gloves

1894

x-rays found

1895

karl landsteiner blood groups

1901

Liston used ether to amputate in britain

1846

Cocaine = local anesthetic

1884

Joseph Lister=surgeon at Glasgow royal infirmity (new building)

1861

Half peeps who had operations died from infection

1861-1865

Joseph lister 1st used carbolic acid

1865

Joseph lister announced his wards sepsis free for 9 months

1867

Koch finds bacterium 4 blood poisoning

1878

Surgeon repaired stab wound heart

1896

Successful removal of infected appendix

1880s

Sterilised rubber gloves 1st time

1894

Pare to battlefields

1537

Simpson used chloroform

1847

Richard Lewisohn found sodium citrate solution stopped blood from clotting

1915

4100 men in British army lost a limb

1914 -1921

Experiments w/ animals and blood transfusions

17th C

Hannah greener died w/ chloroform

1848

Queen vic received chloroform in childbirth

1853

Lister=prof of surgery kings college & published antiseptic surgery

1877

Koch steam steriliser

1878

Novocaine more effective local anesthetic

1905

Rous and turner way of storing blood

1916

Gilles set up plastic surgery unit in aldershot

1916

James Simpson 1st used chloroform

1847