Zusammenfassung der Ressource
19th century
- time line
- 1846
- robert
liston
- removed leg using ether
- 1847
- James Simpson
- discovered
chloroform
- ignaz
semmelweiss
- cut death rates by 1/2 in maternity ward by getting them to
wash their hands in calcium chloride between each patient
- 1854
- Florence
Nightingale
- improved hospital standards
- 1865
- Joseph lister
- cut death rates from 46% to 15%
spraying the instruments & bandages
with a solution of carbolic acid
- 1890
- beginning of Aseptic surgery
- boiled instruments
- using masks &
rubber gloves
- 1901
- Karl
Landsteiner
- blood
groups
- 1913
- Richard Lewisohn
- sodium citrate stops blood clotting
- 1938
- The National Blood Tranfusion
Service was set up in Britian