Surgery - dates

Question 1

What year was Ether first used in the UK by Robert Liston?

Answer 1

1846

Question 2

What year did John Snow invent the chloroform inhaler?

Answer 2

1848

Question 3

What year did John Snow try amylene?

Answer 3

1856

Question 4

What year did Lister develop carbolic acid as an antiseptic?

Answer 4

1865

Question 5

What year did Koch use hot steam to sterilise equipment?

Answer 5

1878

Question 6

What year did Lister develop catgut?

Answer 6

1881

Question 7

What year did Koller introduce cocaine as an anaesthetic?

Answer 7

1884

Question 8

What year was ether found to be better than laughing gas?

Answer 8

1846

Question 9

What year did James Simpson discover the anaesthetising qualities of chloroform?

Answer 9

1847

Question 10

What year did Dr Halstead ask Goodyear Rubber to make gloves?

Answer 10

1890

Question 11

What year did Karl Landsteiner discover blood groups?

Answer 11

1901

Question 12

What year did Alfred Einhor develop novocaine?

Answer 12

1905

Question 13

What year did Cushing use magnets to remove bullet fragments from the head?

Answer 13

1914

Question 14

What year were prosthetic limbs made from a lighter alloy?

Answer 14

1914

Question 15

What year was debridement developed?

Answer 15

1914

Question 16

What year did Robertson pioneer indirect transfusions?

Answer 16

1915

Question 17

What year did Rous and Turner find that blood can be stored for 4 weeks if you add glucose citrate?

Answer 17

1916

Question 18

When was the Carrel-Dakin method developed?

Answer 18

1917

Question 19

When were O-type blood depots created?

Answer 19

1917

Question 20

When did Gillies open a plastic surgery unit?

Answer 20

1917

Question 21

What year was an effective tetanus vaccine created?

Answer 21

1938

Question 22

What year did Lewisohn discover that adding sodium citrate to blood can stop it clotting?

Answer 22

1915

Question 23

What year was the mobile x-ray developed?

Answer 23

1915

Question 24

What year did Robert Jones work on the Thomas splint?

Answer 24

1915

Question 25

What year did Weil find blood lasts longer if refrigerated?

Answer 25

1915

Question 26

What year was the National Blood Transfusion Service set up?

Answer 26

1938

Question 27

What year did McIndoe set up the Guinea Pig Club?

Answer 27

1939

Question 28

What year was heart surgery further developed?

Answer 28

1939

Question 29

What year did the NHS give local access to surgical procedures?

Answer 29

1948