Surgery through time - main events (not all)
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- Created on: 28-05-13 11:25
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- Surgery
- Prehistory
- Trephining used to remove 'evil spirits'
- Broken bones were set with clay
- Ancient Egypt
- Introduction of metal tools
- Removal of tumours which could be felt under the skin
- Ancient Greece
- Frequently conducted amputations
- Turpentine used to clean wounds
- Opium used as a sedative
- Middle Ages
- Developed methods of removing arrows
- Hugh + Theodoric of Lucca
- Arab Empire learnt how to seal wounds using cautery iron
- Developed methods of removing arrows
- Renaissance
- Pare developed new method to treat gunshot wounds
- using oil of roses,egg yolk and turpentine
- Also used silk threat to tie arteries (PARE)
- Pare developed new method to treat gunshot wounds
- 19th Century
- Simpson developed chloroform
- Semmelweiss made washing hands compulsory on his ward
- Lister developed carbolic spray
- Halsted introduced gowns,caps, masks and gloves
- 20th Century
- Landsteiner discovered blood groupd
- Barnard conducted the first heart transplant but patient died afterwards due to rejection
- McIndoe developed brain surgery
- Prehistory
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