History of Surgery Flashcards
c.6500BC
Evidence of trepanning (corpses found in France); also of setting bones and blood-letting
c.1750BC
Code of Hammurabi (Mesopotamia) has clauses referring to laws about surgery
c.1600BC
Edwin Smith Papyrus (Egypt) inlcudes manual of surgical procedures
C2AD
Galen - use of ligatures
c.500BC
Hippocratic medicine
forbids use of knife - which implies some healers did
Some basic surgery; e.g. ‘On Joints’
1000AD
Avicenna’s ‘The Canon of Medicine’
Used until around C18th, combined Greek and Arabic medicine
C13th Europe
Evidence of barber-surgeons in Europe flourishing
1302
Dissections begin at University of Bologna
Pre-1308
Worshipful Company of Barbers in London
Guild structure - implies conventions and codes of conduct
Early C14th
Guy de Chauliac - ‘Great Surgery’
Black Death, mid C14th
Reduced Catholic church influence?
Alongside Renaissance
Renaissance
c.1300-1500
Re-emphasised discovery of Greco-Roman texts
Early C16th
Vesalius - emphasis on rational and empirical hands-on anatomical discovery
Ambroise Pare - created plaster for gunshot wounds, reintroduced Galenic ligatures
1628
William Harvey - blood circulation
C18th
John Hunter - emphasis on experience and observational method in London universities
Morgagni organ pathology (mid-C18th)
Bichat tissue pathology (late C18th to early C19th)