SURGERY
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- Created on: 09-05-18 17:56
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- SURGERY
- Anatomy
- Andreus Vesalius corrects Claudius Galen's mistakes in his book -'on the fabric of the human body'
- Blood loss
- Landsteiner discovers blood groups and how they should be used for transfusion
- Lewisohn uses sodium citrate to prevent blood clots
- Infection
- Louis Pasteur discovers pathogens and speculates that they may cause infection
- Ignaz Semmelweis makes doctors wash hands but doesn't know why it stops disease
- Joseph Lister builds on the previous ideas creating aseptic surgery
- Equipment and hands cleaned
- Carboxylic acid spray
- anaesthetics
- William Morton discovers the anaesthetic properties of ether
- Karl Koller discovers the anaesthetic properties of cocaine
- Anatomy
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