My wife think's im nuts for even watching this kind of stuff, along with studying WW1, the Civil War, etc etc, but that is what I watch on utube along with learning about the black plague, the Vikings, ancient Rome, and anything else interesting to me, and I'll tell you what, WE ARE DAMN LUCKY to be born from 1900 and on and not before that. The oldest documented person right now is a Japanese woman born in 1900. I feel especially lucky being born in late 1968 and not having to go to war. The world we live in today is so much easier than the world that our grand parents and great grand parents, and before had lived in!
cowboysfan782008 welcome to the club I’ve been obsessed about medical history for years. Would love to visit this place but arthritic now so can’t manage stairs.
Robert Liston was the best he could amputate an arm or leg in 28 seconds before the patient died of the shock and its completely horrible because the surgeons wore gowns which where stiff and stinking of puss and blood and the instruments where contaminated from using them on other patients its completely horrible and even if you had an amputation you'd still would get hospital infection and gas gangrene it's horrible but thank god for Joseph Lister bringing in antiseptics and the amounts of people he saved was brilliant without Lister surgery would still be the same as back then so a lot of people owe Joseph Lister a lot of praise for everything he did back then. Thanks for reading folks and if you like my message then please leave a thumbs up OK cheers everybody.
Hi Dianne well I know loads of things about victorian surgery and Robert Liston is my Idol and Joseph Lister because they where both fantastic men and pure geniuses as well and I highly respect them both for what they've contributed to surgery because without them I think surgery today would of been exactly the same as back then and in a pure mess if you understand what I mean OK. And I just wanted to say that I am planning to be a surgeon in the future I really want to get qualified and get myself an MD and go to medical school so that's my plan for the future ok I'm just letting you know that's all OK cheers.
Fabulous you’ll also know Joseph Lister was present at 21st December 1846, for me the biggest date of all time, yes October 16th was a success but the first European one is very special. I’m virtually blind now but have been fascinated by medical History for 40 years now. I have though I can no longer read them, a surgery book from 1814, from St Thomas, also oplalmic surgery 1861. My most prized book is a fascimile of John Snow, on the inhibition of ether and chloroform. Good luck in your studies and yes I agree if those two had failed we’d still be chopping legs off without GA.
Hi Diane thanks for what you have said it's one of my all-time ambition to become a surgeon and I'd like to be the best like Robert Liston that's what I'd like to do in the future. And I've just seen the video again and emagine the pain when the surgeon makes the first cut with that straight back amputation knife 🗡 it must of been hell for the poor patient who is about to loose there leg and like Stewart said in the video this was done in no more than a couple of seconds and then the two bones sawed through I can emagine the pain the poor patient went through the whole operation no anaesthetic at all and the patient would be awake throughout the whole prossedure and the surgeon hasn't washed his hands before the operation and washed them after because of the wound being full of pus and like I've said the surgeons gown being stiff and stinking of pus and blood as well must of been really horrible and just downright disgusting and the instruments being unclean and unsterilised is just horrible isn't it? But thank goodness for Joseph Lister bringing in antiseptic surgery and without Lister surgery would be exactly the same as it was back then wouldn't it?. Thanks Diane and please get back to me very soon cheers.
DireSloth Surgeons did not really like using Ether , even though it worked , it gave the patients sore eyes , other sore body parts and also it cause swelling in the mouth and made patients move and jitter during their surgery and yes opium was discovered in prehistoric times 1500bc but it was first the Egyptians discovered its power when physicians used it to solve headaches after it been given by Isis to Ra for the same reason but it must of somehow lost its flare along the way and with new discoveries of anaesthesia was pushed to the back of the line however I think middle easten surgeons and doctors still used it. Hope this was helpful :)
No anesthesia? Wasn't ether discovered around that time? And either way they'd been giving patients opium for hundreds of years before that, hadn't they?
Opium wasn't widely used as an anaesthetic in Victorian times. When historians say that doctors used to saw off a patient's leg without anaesthetic, they really mean it. I myself find it impossible to imagine that kind of pain and I cannot come to terms with it.
Ether was discovered indeed but anasthesia is a fine line from death, you have to not only have the chemicals to put you to sleep but also the chemicals to wake you up again and prevent your body from just not functioning so it was around but work was still being done to get it right and its only later on that it became reliable, until then the best way to avoid infection and pain etc was to make it as quick as possible, some surgeons got very good at making it incredibly fast and efficient, the thin sharp blades were designed for this very purpose.
