Post by Mr Modica on May 29, 2013 18:55:25 GMT
Changes in surgery
Three main problems with surgery are pain, bleeding and infection.
Pain
– solution, Simpson and chloroform 1847. Fewer die of shock.
Bleeding –
-Cauterise, but painful.
- Pare develops ligatures (but they carried infection) and soothing lotion.
- WWI develops methods of storing blood for transfusions (blood groups discovered 1901).
Infection –
- Pasteur discovers germs in 1861.
- Lister develops carbolic spray in 1871 but could only deal with infection on the surface.
o Opposition to Lister did not believe in Germs, cracked hands, made operations expensive.
- Penicillin developed during WWII by Chain and Florey (D Day)
springwoodgcsehistory.blogspot.co.uk/p/medicine-through-time-overview.html (Miss Webster's site)
Three main problems with surgery are pain, bleeding and infection.
Pain
– solution, Simpson and chloroform 1847. Fewer die of shock.
Bleeding –
-Cauterise, but painful.
- Pare develops ligatures (but they carried infection) and soothing lotion.
- WWI develops methods of storing blood for transfusions (blood groups discovered 1901).
Infection –
- Pasteur discovers germs in 1861.
- Lister develops carbolic spray in 1871 but could only deal with infection on the surface.
o Opposition to Lister did not believe in Germs, cracked hands, made operations expensive.
- Penicillin developed during WWII by Chain and Florey (D Day)
springwoodgcsehistory.blogspot.co.uk/p/medicine-through-time-overview.html (Miss Webster's site)