Medicine through time

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Why is 1846-70 known as the 'black period' of surgery?
Surgeons wore blood stained clothes and didn't wash anything- so patients' died in surgery.
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What did Semmelweis ask doctors to do and what were the results?
All doctors should wash their hands in chloride of lime before examining patients. Fewer people died in surgery.
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What did Lister do to improve things?
Kills germs, use carbolic acid- first on bandages, then as a spray. Far fewer died.
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What is Aseptic surgery?
Keeping clean.
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How did Koch give a boost to Lister's ideas?
Koch found the bacterium which caused Septicaemia.
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What did Semmelweis ask doctors to do and what were the results?

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All doctors should wash their hands in chloride of lime before examining patients. Fewer people died in surgery.

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What did Lister do to improve things?

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What is Aseptic surgery?

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How did Koch give a boost to Lister's ideas?

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