Pain
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- Created on: 28-05-13 13:47
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- Pain
- No anaesthetics until the mid 19th century
- Doctors avoided surgery: pain, shock and blood loss
- Alcohol and opium made patients less aware of the pain
- Cocaine 1884, local anaesthetic
- 1905-Novocaine
- Cocaine 1884, local anaesthetic
- Most common surgery was amputation
- First suggested anaesthetic- Nitrous Oxide, by Humphrey Davy in 1799
- Made the patient less aware of the pain, but caused the body to convulse
- Chloroform: James Simpson, 1847
- Popularised by Queen Victoria in 1853
- Difficult to get the dosage correct; patients died of heart failure
- Chloroform inhaler-John Snow, 1848, reduced deaths
- Opposition to anaesthetics:new ideas, disrupting God's plan
- Chloroform: James Simpson, 1847
- Popularised by Queen Victoria in 1853
- Difficult to get the dosage correct; patients died of heart failure
- Chloroform inhaler-John Snow, 1848, reduced deaths
- Chloroform: James Simpson, 1847
- Ether: William Morton, 1846
- Problems with ether: heavy storage, flammable, irritated the lungs
- First amputation- Robert Liston, December 1846
- Problems with ether: heavy storage, flammable, irritated the lungs
- No anaesthetics until the mid 19th century
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