Liston used ether as an anaesthetic
1846
Simpson used chloroform as an anaesthetic
1847
Hannah Greener’s toenail incident
1848
The black period where there was still infection and blood loss
1850-70s
Queen Victoria used chloroform during childbirth
1853
The germ theory
1861
Lister used carbolic acid
1867
Lister published his methods
1877
Landsteiner identified blood groups
1901
Novocaine was used as an anaesthetic
1905
Gilles set up a plastic surgery unit at Aldershot
1916
Rous and Turner developed a way of storing blood
1916
The steam steriliser (Koch)
1878
WWI
1914-18
Hypodermic needle
1953
X-Ray’s discovered
1895