Health & The People: developments in surgery and John Hunter

Question 1

To be a surgeon in 1813 how many years experience did you have to do to become a surgeon?

Answer 1

1 year minimum

Question 2

In 1856, how many people were doctors,physicians and surgeons?

Answer 2

10,220

Question 3

What did John Hunter set up?

Answer 3

Large practices and trained hundreds of other surgeons

Question 4

How did his book help the surgical profession?

Answer 4

Showed theoretical knowledge about atomy that every surgeon needed

Question 5

When did John publish his book about teeth?

Answer 5

1771

Question 6

What was John’s book called?

Answer 6

‘The natural History of Teeth’

Question 7

When did John publish his book on veneral disease?

Answer 7

1986

Question 8

What was johns book about veneral disease based on?

Answer 8

His self experimentation

Question 9

What did John collect?

Answer 9

Anatomical specimens

Question 10

What did John preserve?

Answer 10

3000 stuffed or dried animals, plants,fossils,diseased organs, embryos and other body parts

Question 11

What did John experiment with?

Answer 11

Inflating narrow blood vessels with wax to study blood flow

Question 12

What was the famous item is johns collection?

Answer 12

A 7ft skeleton acquired in 1783

Question 13

What did John experiment on in 1767?

Answer 13

His self

Question 14

What did hunter do to himself?

Answer 14

Injected himself with pus from sores of a patient with gonorrhoea to find out whether gonorrhoea and syphillis was the same disease

Question 15

Why did hunters experiment on himself fail?

Answer 15

The patient has both gonorrhoea and syphilis - took 3 years for his to recover

Question 16

What did hunter do to a man admitted to St George’s hospital with a throbbing lump on his knee joint?

Answer 16

Conducted surgery on the man based on his idea that his blood supply was restricted by the lump. The man walked out there alive 6 weeks later