Transformation of Surgery - Dates and Events

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1799

Humphrey Davey inhales Nitrous Oxide

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1844-1845

Horace Wells uses Nitrous Oxide when extracting teeth

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1846

Willam Morton discovers Ether

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1846

Ignas Semmelweis uses Chloride of Lime to wash hands before surgery

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1848

Hannah Greener dies from Chloroform overdose

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1847

James Simpson sniffs Chloroform with friends

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1861

Pasteur publishes his Germ Theory

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1853

Chloroform is accepted when Queen Victoria uses it during the birth of her son Prince Leopold

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1890

William Halstead develops rubber gloves

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1878

Robert Koch develops steam steriliser

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1916

Rous and Turner discover adding Glucose to blood helps it to last longer

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1914-1918 (During World War One)

Richard Lewisohn suggests using sodium citrate to store blood

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1901

Karl Landsteiner discovers blood groups O, A and B

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