Zusammenfassung der Ressource
History of Surgery Mind Map
- History of Anaesthetics
- Humphrey Davy
discovered nitrous oxide or 'laughing gas'
- Horace Wells performed successful operations under nitrous
oxide
- When he tried a demonstration patient
groaned and Wells' reputation was ruined
- Well's colleague William Morton tried with ether-removed tumour from
neck-successful
- Irritated Lungs and also
flammable-not good
- James Simpson discovered Chloroform at 'solvent abuse'
party-unconscious-wrote up findings-chloroform general anaesthetic.
- Overdose of chloroform can stop heart
- John Snow invented inhaler to control how much chloroform patient got
- Carl Koller discovered Cocaine as anaesthetic
Safer than chloroform
- Highly addictive if overused
- Modern anaesthetics greatly based around cocaine
- Beating Blood Loss
- First Blood Transfusion was in 1492-Pope
Innocent slipped into a coma and 3 boys had
tubes inserted from their arms into the pope's
- However, the blood
clotted, the pope had an
allergic reaction and the
three boys and the pope
died
- Blood clotting and
allergic reactions
two main
problems with
blood transfusions
- Karl Landsteiner was a
haematologist and he
organised blood into the
groups A, B, O and AB
- Richard Lewis discovered
that a way of preserving
blood was to add Sodium
Citrate to blood and freeze it
- NB: Albert Hustin carried out first successful blood transfusion
- As a result, blood banks were set up
- History of Antiseptics
- Joseph Lister noticed that gangrene did not set in if wound was covered in
boiling tar
- Lister thought that best way to prevent infectionwas to keep microbes
away from wound
- Lister helped prevent blood poisoning by making sure
hands, bandages and surgeons' clothes were kept very
clean
- Known as antiseptic surgery
- Lister invented 'squirt' or 'spray'
machine, which sprayed carbolic acid
over operation
- Greek Four Humors
- Blood
- Air
- Hot and Wet
- Spring
- Yellow Bile
- Fire
- Hot and Dry
- Summer
- Black Bile
- Earth
- Cold and Dry
- Autumn
- Phlegm
- Water
- Cold and Wet
- Winter
- The Ancient Greeks believed that there
were four 'humours' in the body, liquids
that everyone needed a healthy balance
of to remain healthy. These 'humours'
were also related to weather, seasons
and the Greek elements Earth, Air, Fire
and Water.
- Anatomical Problems
- Microscope improved
knowledge of anatomy
- Murder Act of 1752-only
bodies of murderers can be
dissected
- Medical schools got extra bodies through stealing from graves
- Mort safes-cages put up around graves