dates

• Problems of pain, infection and blood loss

  1840s
• Ether used by Liston and chloroform by Simpson

  1847
• Black period of sugery

  1860s
• Lister and carbolic acid

  1860s
• Lister experiments with catgut

  1881
• Aseptic surgery

  1890s
• Rontgen x-rays

  1895
• Landsteiner discovers blood groups

  1901
• Gillies and plastic surgery, mobile x-rays and blood storage for blood transfusions

  WW1
• Freeze plasma and red blood cells frozen seperatly

  1930s
• Mclndoe and guinea pig club

  WW2