GCSE history surgery infection
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- Created on: 01-06-14 22:41
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- Infection
- before antiseptics
- many people died after operations
- surgeons wore clothes covered in blood and pus
- some people washed there hands but only woth water
- the places and equipment used in operations were unhygienic
- Development of antiseptics
- After reading pasteur's germ theory in 1864, lister learned that carbolic acid kills parasites.
- in 1865, he soaked bandages in carbolic acid so that the wounds did not get infected
- he used the acid to clean wounds and equiptment
- he also invented a spray to clean the air
- in 1867 he announced that his ward had been free from infections for nine months
- After reading pasteur's germ theory in 1864, lister learned that carbolic acid kills parasites.
- before antiseptics
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