Ambroise Pare
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- Created on: 28-03-13 10:33
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- Ambroise Pare
- Background
- He was born in France in 1510. He was an apprentice to his brother before becoming a surgeon. He became an army surgeon and treated sword and gunshot wounds. Died in 1590.
- Before Pare
- To stop the wound from bleeding they sealed it with a red hot iron. This was called cauterising
- Doctors treated open wounds by pouring boiling oil on them. It was painful and often patients died
- After Pare
- He discovered that wounds healed a lot quicker without the boiling oil.
- What he did
- In order to stop the bleeding he tied a silk thread around the blood vessels to close them up
- One day the boiling oil ran out and Pare decided to use an old remedy he had heard of and it worked.
- Chance
- Many other surgeons did not agree with the method he came up with.
- The factor involved in this was chance.
- The men that he treated with hot oil died, while the one he treated with egg yolks, oil of roses and turpentine had healed.
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