Factors influencing developments in surgery

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  • Factors influencing developments in surgery
    • War
      • pre-history
        • Trephining   Setting broken bones
      • Roman Empire
        • many surgeons gained their skills of amputation in the army
          • Galen gained experience as a surgeon in gladiator school where they fought each other and animals which lead to injuries being sustained.
      • The Middle Ages
        • People like John of Arderne (one of the most famous Medieval surgeons) served as an army surgeon in the wars between England and France in the early 1300s – 
          • Theodoric of Lucca went on the crusades and found new surgical instruments and ideas about healing wounds.
      • The Medical Renaissance
        • Pare spent 20 years as a surgeon at war and saw many different types of wound and was able to experiment – begins to use ligatures instead of hot irons to cauterise but this does not catch on for another 100 years.
          • Richard Wiseman treated soldiers in the Civil War and was able to experience treating lots of musket wound..
      • 1750-1900
        • Wars in this period led to practice on wounds that had been caused by new weapons.  Experiments with blood transfusions began.
      • The 20th century
        • WW1 hindered the development of surgical techniques.in Britain 14000 doctors were taken away from their normal work to cope with casualties.
          • facing dirty hospitals and vast numbers of wounded surgeons had to develop new techniques.
    • Technology
      • Ancient Egypt
        • Specialist craftsman made fine bronze instruments for doctors.
      • The Medical Renaissance
        •  Vesalius wouldn’t have been able to produce his book 100 years before as printing hadn’t been invented. He used ‘the best printers’ in Switzerland. Printing also meant Pares works could be published
      • 1750-1900
        • The 20th Century
          • X-rays – discovered 20 years before the war in 1895 by Wilhelm Rontgen. Within 6 months hospitals installed x-ray machines. There were also portable X-ray machines

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