Antiseptics
- Created by: matthew
- Created on: 26-01-13 21:27
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- Antiseptics
- 1950's-70's: Black period of surgery due to so many deaths
- More operations as painless and more complex operations
- INFECTION
- 1846: Ignaz Semmelweiss tried to stop infection by making people wash hands and failed
- 1861: Pasteur published his germ theroy
- 1865: Lister used carbolic acid on bandgaes in an operation
- Invented carbolic spary
- 1877: Koch developed steam steraliser.
- move to asceptic surgeeventualy
- Opposition
- Some doctors didnt accept idea that microbes caused disease
- Slowed down the operation
- Doctors who copied listers ideas often copied them wrong so didnt get good results
- equipment expensive and heavy
- 1950's-70's: Black period of surgery due to so many deaths
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