In the 1840s, the discovery of anesthesia increased the number of operations, but also increased the chance of infection after surgery. The number of operations performed drastically dropped due to post operative inflammation and suppuration that were believed to come from the air. Nonetheless, British surgeon Sir Joseph Lister was greatly influenced and inspired by the inflammation to come up with his own surgical methods. Joseph Lister was born in West Ham, London, United Kingdom on the fifth of April in 1827. He was the fourth of seven children to Isabella Harris and Joseph Jackson Lister, a family of Quakers. Lister’s father was a wealthy wine merchant, optician, and physicist. He was famous for his development of achromatic, colorless, microscope lens. As a child, Lister conducted microscopic research of fish and small animals, which is …show more content…
Within a year, he met James Syme, the most prominent surgical teacher in his time. In 1856, Lister was promoted to assistant surgeon at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary to James Syme. He later married Agnes Syme: daughter of James Syme. They did not have children. In 1860, the couple moved to Glasgow, Scotland, where Lister became the Professor of Surgery at the Royal Infirmary. Lister began his research on microscopic changes in body tissue that cause inflammation.
Around 1864, Louis Pasteur, a French chemist, published his theory that putrefaction, or rotting of the body, was caused by germs. Pasteur concluded that fermentation and food spoilage were caused by micro-organisms called germs. He proposed three solutions to kill the germs: filtration, exposure to heat, or exposure to chemical solutions. Lister’s discoveries were greatly influenced by his time period because he utilized Pasteur’s theory to conclude that inflammation resulted from germs that entered the
A remarkable breakthrough in medicine occurred in the late 1800s through the work of Louis Pasteur. Pasteur's experiments showed that bacteria reproduce like other living things and travel from place to place. Using the results of his findings, he developed pasteurization, which is the process of heating liquids to kill bacteria and prevent fermentation. He also produced an anthrax vaccine as well as a way to weaken the rabies virus. After studying Pasteur's work, Joseph Lister developed antisepsis, which is the process of killing disease-causing germs. In 1865 before an operation, he cleansed a leg wound first with carbolic acid, and performed the surgery with sterilized (by heat) instruments. The wound healed, and the patient survived. Prior to surgery, the patient would've needed an amputation. However, by incorporating these antiseptic procedures in all of his surgeries, he decreased postoperative deaths. The use of antiseptics eventually helped reduce bacterial infection not only in surgery but also in childbirth and in the treatment of battle wounds. Another man that made discoveries that reinforced those of Pasteur's was Robert Koch. Robert Koch isolated the germ that causes tuberculosis, identified the germ responsible for Asiatic cholera, and developed sanitary measures to prevent disease. (1)
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To have fully conscious, screaming patients during an operation even made surgeons not want to perform surgery. However, the discovery of surgical anesthesia changed the way most, including surgeons, perceived surgery. Although surgical anesthesia was not discovered until the middle of the nineteenth century, there were significant contributions by talented thinkers made more than one hundred years before the discovery.4 The list of those contributors includes Joseph Priestley, who discovered hydrogen in 1766, nitrogen in 1772, and oxygen and nitrous oxide in 1774 and also introduced inhalation as a way to administer medicine5, Humphrey ...
One of the leading surgeons of the time was also the first surgeon to use antiseptics in surgery. Joseph Lister believed that infections were a result of bacteria. He used various methods to fight the bacteria, constantly changing his methods over the years. He even went so far as to use vaporizing sprays in the surgery areas (Connor). His original method, developed in March of 1847, to keep a wound sterilized was to “[use] [carbolic acid] to clean a wound, and then [apply] a piece of lint, soaked in the acid, as a dressing, covered by a slightly larger piece of thin tin or sheet lead in order to prevent evaporation of the acid.
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Joseph Lister was born into the Society of Friends, a Quaker community, to Joseph Jackson Lister and Isabella Harris on April 5, 1827 in Upton, England. His father was a scientist who was known for his invention of the achromatic microscope. Lister was one of five children and showed a marked interest in the study of botany and zoology. While attending school among the Quakers he became fluent in the languages of French and German both of which were being used in medical research. Later in 1844, Lister
A young kid named Johnny Cade, ran into a burning church, along with his friend Ponyboy Curtis, to save young lives that were trapped in the flaming scene. Johnny Cade was willing to help out and risk his own life to save the children’s lives. He ran in with his friend while the church was collapsing on them.
During the era of the Industrial Revolution, surgeries were very risky procedures. Many times the patients would develop infections and die shortly afterwards even if the actual surgery had been successful. It was generally believed that it was exposure to bad air that caused infections in wounds. Imagine going through an unbelievable amount of pain after surgery, and knowing there is nothing you can possibly do to relieve the pain. Joseph Lister is commonly known as The Father of Modern Surgery. Although even when surgery first came about the patients had to withstand all the pain being that there wasn't any anesthesia. Thanks to him and his very commonly used achievement, the medical field has advanced. Not only has just surgery advanced but all the aspects of surgery have advanced like the surgeon's knowledge, the instruments used, the medicine used during the procedures, etc. Looking back to before surgery was even a thought, it was very rare to receive a cure when going to the hospital. Joseph Lister has become one of the most important men during the Industrial Revolution as well as today.
With science taking a new direction, people became healthier as vaccines, pasteurization, anesthesia, antiseptics, and the importance of personal hygiene were introduced. With the scientific advancements, scientists were able to study deadly diseases more closely. After the germ theory was introduced, Louis Pasteur developed vaccines to combat rabies and anthrax and introduced pasteurization to killed disease-carrying microbes in milk. The discovery of vaccinations enabled people to become immune to the deadly diseases out in the world. Florence Nightingale introduced the necessary sanitary measures that each hospitals should take and Joseph Lister discovered antiseptics that should be used to sterilize instruments before being used to operate surgeries. After these introductions of sanitary measures in hospitals, the rate of patients who died of infection days after the surgery decreased. People were able to live longer and survive more diseases, consequently increased the population and supply of workers.
In the early 1800’s, before the use of anesthesia, many patients with life threatening issues would forgo surgery and choose the permanent path of death rather than undergo a painful, emotionally scarring procedure such as surgery before anesthesia. When surgeries did take place, they would be performed on the top floors of hospitals so that the other patients couldn’t hear the screams. More than 8,000 anesthesia-free operations were performed in the Ether Dome at Mass General Hospital, coincidentally the birthplace of the first surgery “without pain” (Mass General).
During the 1800’s majority of people thought the infections that were killing people after surgery were due to the chemical damage from the air. Medical instruments were not sterilized before surgery and the doctors/surgeons were not even required to wash their hands before surgery in this specific era. Joseph’s idea for having sterilization processes in an operating room was inspired by an article written by Louis Pasteur in the 1860’s ("Joseph Lister" Famous Biologists). Louis Pasteur was one of the many scientists discovering new scientific facts around the mid 1800’s. Pasteur was working on the
Anesthesia did not only have a significant impact on society, but also on medical science.
Bigo’s beers had been turning sour and he did not know why so Pasteur began to do research. According to www.historylearningsite.co.uk, after observing the beer, he discovered that there were tiny organisms in the liquid, and he determined that those microbes were responsible for the beer going sour. He continued this research with other liquids than just beer, such as, wine, milk, and vinegar. Regardless of ...
Anesthesia is used in almost every single surgery. It is a numbing medicine that numbs the nerves and makes the body go unconscious. You can’t feel anything or move while under the sedative and are often delusional after being taken off of the anesthetic. Believe it or not, about roughly two hundred years ago doctors didn’t use anesthesia during surgery. It was rarely ever practiced. Patients could feel everything and were physically held down while being operated on. 2It wasn’t until 1846 that a dentist first used an anesthetic on a patient going into surgery and the practice spread and became popular (Anesthesia). To this day, advancements are still being made in anesthesiology. 7The more scientists learn about molecules and anesthetic side effects, the better ability to design agents that are more targeted, more effective and safer, with fewer side effects for the patients (Anesthesia). Technological advancements will make it easier to read vital life signs in a person and help better decide the specific dosages a person needs.
Although surgical operations were performed, they did not know about sanitisation and there were no anaesthetics. Most patients died from infection or shock.