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Title: How did James Simpson help make surgery safer?


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How did James Simpson help make surgery safer?
Aaargghh! That hurts!
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Problems with Surgery
  • Three main problems
  • Pain
  • Infection
  • Bleeding
  • We will investigate how these problems were dealt
    with to make surgery safer and more effective

3
How can the problem of pain be solved?
  • We need an effective and safe
  • ANAESTHETIC

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Early Nineteenth Century
  • Barber-surgeons
  • Use of drink, drugs, hypnosis
  • 1799 - Humphrey Davy experiments with nitrous
    oxide (laughing gas)
  • 1845 - Horace Long uses nitrous oxide, not
    effective for everyone
  • 1846 - John Warren - successfully uses ether

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James Simpson(1811-1870)
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Read the sheet and answer the questions about
Simpson
  • How did Simpson feel about ether?
  • How did Simpson discover chloroform?
  • Why was there opposition to the use of
    anaesthetics like chloroform?
  • How did chloroform become accepted?

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James Simpson(1811-1870)
  • Professor of Medicine and Midwifery at the
    University of Edinburgh during the 1840s
  • Disliked ether - inflammable, pungent smell,
    irritated the lungs
  • Promoted use of chloroform in surgeries

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Opposition to Chloroform
  • Surgeons inexperienced, accidents and overdoses
  • Calvinist Church opposition to chloroform in
    childbirth
  • Open to abuse by surgeons
  • Considered a soft option by the army

9
Queen Victoria
  • Given chloroform during birth of eighth child,
    Leopold (1853) by John Snow
  • Became more socially acceptable
  • Most popular anaesthetic until 1900, found to
    damage the liver

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Next lesson
  • We will investigate the problem of
  • INFECTION
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