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History of Surgery Flashcards

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c.6500BC

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Evidence of trepanning (corpses found in France); also of setting bones and blood-letting

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c.1750BC

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Code of Hammurabi (Mesopotamia) has clauses referring to laws about surgery

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c.1600BC

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Edwin Smith Papyrus (Egypt) inlcudes manual of surgical procedures

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C2AD

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Galen - use of ligatures

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c.500BC

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Hippocratic medicine
forbids use of knife - which implies some healers did
Some basic surgery; e.g. ‘On Joints’

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1000AD

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Avicenna’s ‘The Canon of Medicine’

Used until around C18th, combined Greek and Arabic medicine

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C13th Europe

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Evidence of barber-surgeons in Europe flourishing

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1302

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Dissections begin at University of Bologna

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Pre-1308

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Worshipful Company of Barbers in London

Guild structure - implies conventions and codes of conduct

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Early C14th

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Guy de Chauliac - ‘Great Surgery’

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Black Death, mid C14th

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Reduced Catholic church influence?

Alongside Renaissance

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Renaissance

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c.1300-1500

Re-emphasised discovery of Greco-Roman texts

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Early C16th

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Vesalius - emphasis on rational and empirical hands-on anatomical discovery
Ambroise Pare - created plaster for gunshot wounds, reintroduced Galenic ligatures

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1628

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William Harvey - blood circulation

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C18th

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John Hunter - emphasis on experience and observational method in London universities
Morgagni organ pathology (mid-C18th)
Bichat tissue pathology (late C18th to early C19th)

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Broussais

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Early C19th

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Morgagni

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Mid-C18th organ pathology

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Bichat

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Late C18th to early C19th tissue pathology

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1855

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Virchow - cellula e cellula, cellular pathology

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1840s

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Introduction of ether, nitrous oxide and chloroform

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1860s

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Joseph Lister (using Pasteur’s work) discovers antisepsis technique of carbolic acid

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