Bitesize: Surgery - anaesthetics and antiseptics
c1840-1900 · Resource
Edexcel revision guide on the two problems of surgery, pain and infection: ether and chloroform anaesthesia, Lister's antiseptic method, and the resistance each faced.
On these timelines: BBC Bitesize (revision guides), Resources: Combined
Around 1855
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- London sewer system / Bazalgette (1859)