The Surgeon Timeline !

By akita.mills
  • Period: 20 to 20

    The Surgeon Timeline !

    I got all my info from https://www.verywellhealth.com/the-history-of-surgery-timeline-3157332 and most of it i wrote down from 1929 i had in my notebook.

  • med. school

    Mary Edwards Walker graduates from medical school and becomes the first female surgeon in America.

  • info.

    British surgeon Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery, extolling the virtues of cleanliness in surgery. The mortality rate for surgical patients immediately falls.

  • appendectomy performed

    First successful appendectomy performed, in Iowa.

  • info .

    Widespread use of chemical agents to minimize germs. Carbolic acid was put on incisions to minimize germs and decrease infection rates.

  • heart surgery performed

    First successful heart surgery performed, Provident Hospital, Chicago. The surgery repaired the pericardium, the sac around the heart. Many do not consider this to be the first successful "heart surgery" because the heart itself was not operated on.

  • X-Ray

    First X-ray performed, in Germany.

  • heart surgery

    First successful heart surgery performed, in Germany. Surgeons repaired a stab wound in the muscle of the right ventricle.

  • cornea transplant

    First successful cornea transplant. a procedure that replaces your cornea, the clear front layer of your eye.

  • plastic surgery

    First documented plastic surgery performed, on a burned English sailor.

  • treatment of diabetes

    Insulin first used for the treatment of diabetes, allowing people with diabetes to survive after diagnosis.

  • Antibiotics

    a type of antimicrobial substance active against bacteria.

  • Tissue culture

    the growth of tissues or cells in an artificial medium separate from the parent organism.

  • Risks of smoking

    causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Smoking also increases risk for tuberculosis, certain eye diseases, and problems of the immune system, including rheumatoid arthritis.

  • Antipsychotics

    a class of medication primarily used to manage psychosis, principally in schizophrenia but also in a range of other psychotic disorders.

  • DNA

    a molecule composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix carrying genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of all known organisms and many viruses.

  • Immunology

    a branch of biology that covers the study of immune systems in all organisms.

  • Oral rehydration therapy

    a type of fluid replacement used to prevent and treat dehydration, especially that due to diarrhea.