history surgery - anaesthetics
- Created by: zoemartin
- Created on: 20-06-16 09:41
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- anaesthetics
- laughing gas
- 1799
- discovered by sir humphry davy
- but you don't go unconscious
- ether
- 1846 John Collins Warren removed a neck tumour
- 1847 Robert Liston used it to amputate a leg
- But - causes coughing and sickness, it's flammable, vile smell and a heavy containor
- chloroform
- 1847 james simpson found it as he tested chemicals to find another anaesthetic
- he used it to help women in childbirth and operations
- but - caused vomiting, more risky operations were tried, blood loss/infection were still a problem and calculations with dosage
- 1847 james simpson found it as he tested chemicals to find another anaesthetic
- other
- attitudes and beliefs
- pain given by God
- pain is natural
- operations
- black period 1870s high death rate
- speed no longer important
- worries
- 1848 hannah greener's death from chloroform during a toenail operation
- about side effects
- dosage unknown
- attitudes and beliefs
- laughing gas
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