Health And The People: Advances In Medical Science

Question 1

What were the 3 new anaesthetics?

Answer 1

Nitrous oxide
Ether
Chloroform

Question 2

When and who wrote an account describing nitrous oxide’s effects?

Answer 2

Humphrey Davy in 1800s

Question 3

What were the effects of nitrous oxide?

Answer 3

Hysterical laughter and no pain

Question 4

When was nitrous oxide first used?

Answer 4

1844

Question 5

What was nitrous oxide used for?

Answer 5

Extracting teeth

Question 6

When and who used ether?

Answer 6

William Clark in 1842

Question 7

What did William Clark use ether to do?

Answer 7

Extract teeth

Question 8

What did Dr Crawford Long use ether to do?

Answer 8

Remove a neck growth from a patient

Question 9

When and who gave a public demo of ether anaesthesia?

Answer 9

William Morton in 1846

Question 10

When and what did Robert Liston use ether for?

Answer 10

Amputating a leg in 1846 (December)

Question 11

What were the negatives about ether?

Answer 11

Hard to inhale
Highly flammable
Caused vomiting

Question 12

Who discovered chloroform and when?

Answer 12

Dr James Simpson in 1847

Question 13

What were the reasons of opposition to anaesthetics?

Answer 13

Surgeons were used to operating quickly and on a conscience patient
Some army surgeons through that soldiers should put up with pain
Religious objection - pain in childbirth was thought to be gods will
Many people died as they didn’t understand dosage yet

Question 14

How were objections to anaesthetics overcome?

Answer 14

Queen Victoria used anaesthetics for childbirth in 1853