History of Science 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ignaz Semmelweis, Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Sepsis

• School: Western University
• Department: History of Science
• Course: History of Science 2220
• Professor: Lawrence Burns

Document Summary

Operation: a procedure performed on a living body usually with instruments for the repair of damage or the restoration of health and especially one that involves incision (cutting), excision (removal), or suturing (sewing up) . Prosthetic hips are made from metal and plastic. The operation is called total hip replacement (thr) An artery or vein is removed from another part of the body and grafted onto the coronary artery in order to bypass a blockage due to arteriosclerosis (plaque build- up) Requires the use of a heart lung machine. 400 to 1400 in europe and the middle east: it begins with the fall of the western roman empire and ends with the bubonic ( black ) plague. The church is the centrepiece but begins to lose some of its power. 1100, monks and priests no longer do surgery or give drugs. Barber surgeons take their place: they have the right tools and are used to menial manual labour.