Timeline of Surgery and Anatomy
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- Key developments in Surgery and Anatomy
- 200
- Galen said that blood passes through the septum and the heart pumps t to the muscles where it is burned up.
- He also discovered that arteries carry blood and that urine is formed in the bladder.
- 1519
- Leonardo da Vinci made detailed drawings of the heart.
- These drawings weren't found until 1850.
- Leonardo da Vinci made detailed drawings of the heart.
- 1250
- Ibn an Nafis said blood doesn't go through the septum and it is pumped through the lungs.
- 1530
- Pare used threads to tie vessels (ligatures).
- Pare also designed artificial limbs and found a new way to treat gunshot wounds.
- 1542
- Vesalius - "Fabric of the Human Body" was written and he corrected some of Galen's work as he said that blood doesn't go through the septum.
- 1616
- William Harvey realised that Galen was wrong about the blood being burned up by the muscles.
- 1628
- Harvey published his book titled "Anatomical Account of the motion of the Heart and Blood". Proving how blood went around the body.
- 1799
- Humphry Davy discovered the anaesthetic properties of nitrous oxide.
- 1847
- Ignaz Semmelweiss explained what caused the disease of puerperal fever.
- James Simpson was the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
- 1842
- Crawford Long experimented using ether as an anaesthetic.
- 1865
- Joseph Lister used carbolic acid to spray his instruments and bandages.
- 1889
- William Halstead developed more methods for hygiene in hospitals.
- 1895
- Wilhelm Rontgen discovered X-Rays.
- 1901
- Karl Lansteiner identified blood groups.
- 1903
- William Einthoven developed the electrocardiograph (ECG) (monitors heart rate).
- 1910
- Hans Christian Jacobaeus performed the first keyhole surgery.
- 1913
- Richard Lewisohn realised that sodium citrate stopped blood clotting.
- 1940s
- Archibald McIndoe rebuilt faces of airman which was early plastic surgery.
- 1950
- William Bigelow performed the first open-heart surgery.
- 1953
- Crick and Watson discovered DNA
- 1967
- Christian Barnaard perforered the first heart transplant.
- 1972
- John Charnley developed him replacements.
- 200
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