How Science and Technology affected developments in Surgery
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- Created on: 27-01-13 13:12
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- science & technology
- experiments were undertaken to find the the most effective anaesthetic
- knowledge of chemistry helped to develop techniques for storing blood to use in blood transfusions
- rous and turner's discovery of adding citrate glucose to blood to store it for longer.
- lewishon's discovery of adding sodium citrate to blood sto stop it from clotting
- Wilhelm roentgen's x-ray machine.
- chloroform inhaler by John snow and carbolic spray, to control dosage
- steam sterilizer by Robert Koch and the carbolic spray helped to reduce infection
- hypodermic needle in 1853 by Alexander Wood made it possible to measure the withdrawal of blood and helped to control the dosage given!
- more powerful microscopes to see germs that cause infection and illnesses - helped prove Pasteur's germ theory and Lister's ideas
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