Surgery Quick Dates Flashcards
(21 cards)
What year was Ether first used in the UK by Robert Liston?
1846
What year did John Snow invent the chloroform inhaler?
1848
What year did Lister develop carbolic acid as an antiseptic?
1865
What year did Koch use hot steam to sterilise equipment?
1878
What year did Lister develop catgut?
1881
What year did James Simpson discover the anaesthetising qualities of chloroform?
1847
What year did Dr Halstead ask Goodyear Rubber to make gloves?
1890
What year did Karl Landsteiner discover blood groups?
1901
What year were prosthetic limbs made from a lighter alloy?
1914
What year was debridement developed?
1914
What year did Robertson pioneer indirect transfusions?
1914
What year did Rous and Turner find that blood can be stored for 4 weeks if you add glucose citrate?
1916
When was the Carrel-Dakin method developed?
1917
When were O-type blood depots created?
1917
When did Gillies open a plastic surgery unit?
1917
What year did Albert Hustin discover that adding sodium citrate to blood can stop it clotting?
1914
What year was the mobile x-ray developed?
1915
What year did Robert Jones work on the Thomas splint?
1915
What year did Weil find blood lasts longer if refrigerated?
1915
What year was the National Blood Transfusion Service set up?
1938
What year did McIndoe set up the Guinea Pig Club?
1939
