Surgery

Question 1

Three features of barber surgeons

Answer 1

untrained
no qualifications
did quick surgery

Question 2

Three features of medieval surgery

Answer 2

Couldn’t repair injuries due to lack of skills and anaesthetic

Had to be quick

Performed by barber surgeons with no training

Question 3

Three features of renaissance surgery

Answer 3

wounds were treated with a mixture of turpentine egg white and rose water

Had to be quick

Performed by barber surgeons with no training

Question 4

Three problems with surgery at the start of the 19th century

Answer 4

Pain infection and bleeding

Question 5

Three 19th century anaesthetics and the problems with them

Answer 5

ether-flammable patients could vomit
laughing gas-patients still moved about
chloroform-overdoses

Question 6

Three ways surgery had improved by 1900 and one problem that still existed by 1900

Answer 6

New anaesthetics
Antiseptic surgery
Surgeons needed qualifications

bleeding

Question 7

Two featurs of Josephs Listers carbolic acid

Answer 7

deaths from infections went from 50%-15%

faced opposition as damaged skin and some surgeons didn’t believe in germ theory

Question 8

Why is diagnosis available to all today

Answer 8

Free through the NHS

Question 9

Five improvements to surgery in the Modern period

Answer 9

Blood transfusions

Technology

high qualified surgical teams

aseptic surgery

Intravenous anaesthetic

Question 10

Three ways technology helps Modern surgery

Answer 10

laparoscopes-to see inside the body

Storage for organ transplants

heart bypass machines