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6. What were some of the down sides to chloroform?

  • Patients couldn't tell the surgeon when to stop
  • Surgeons tried more risky operations and killed more people
  • It gave people the flu
  • People enjoyed pain and didn't want it to end

7. Why did people oppose to using chloroform?

  • Hannah Greener lived through an operation with chloroform to find she grew an extra toe nail
  • Doctors could no longer show off how quickly they could perform an operation
  • Chloroform had been tested and harmful side effects had been discovered
  • Pain was invented by the devil and people may become even more ill if they didn't feel their pain

8. Who discovered different blood groups?

  • Reuben Ottenberg
  • Karl Landsteiner
  • Robert Lister
  • Watson and Crick

9. Who discovered carbolic spray?

  • William Halsted
  • Joseph Lister
  • Louis Pasteur
  • Robert Liston

10. Why did surgeons oppose carbolic spray?

  • They enjoyed taking their time and didn't want to waste time spray carbolic
  • They didn't believe Lister
  • They didn't like Lister
  • They enjoyed infecting patients

11. What did Harold Gillies help improve?

  • Plastic surgery
  • Brain surgery
  • Blood transfusions
  • X-ray machines

12. Where did the idea of using carbolic spray come from?

  • Sewage
  • Cattle
  • Infection
  • Water

13. Which anaesthetic was the first to be discovered?

  • Laughing gas
  • Ether
  • Chloroform