Early Surgery
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- Created on: 28-02-16 19:32
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- Barber Surgeons
- Carried out surgery in towns because they had knives
- Did amputations and pulled out teeth, as well as cutting hair
- Pulled out teeth with pliers
- People believed worms caused tooth ache as they gnawed at your jaw
- Barber surgeons heated up a metal needle and stuck it in you jaw to try and kill the worm
- This stopped pain (which they thought was because they had killed the worm) because it killed the nerve
- Barber surgeons heated up a metal needle and stuck it in you jaw to try and kill the worm
- Let blood if you had a fever
- If you had gangrene, he would amputate your limb
- It would have been excruciatingly painful as there were no anaesthetics
- You might have taken a potion from a local apothecary
- The barber surgeon may knock you out so you wouldn't feel the pain
- This however was risky for him as he might have killed you, in which case you couldn't pay him
- It would have been excruciatingly painful as there were no anaesthetics
- When he had amputated your leg, he would put a burning iron against it to stop the bleeding
- This also happened to kill germs
- This was called cauterising
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