The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine - 9780367030674

Taylor & Francis

The Scientific Revolution in Victorian MedicineAuthor(s): A.J. Youngson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367030674, 978-0367030674\nSynopsis\nOriginally published 1979 The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine looks at the discovery of inhalation anaesthesia in 1846, and how it began a new era in surgery. The book looks at James Young Simpsons demonstration of the value of chloroform as an anaesthetic, and how many surgeons quickly adopted it. The book also looks at the dangers of chloroform if mishandled and only after considerable controversy and numerous fatalities was its use thoroughly understood and established. \n\nTen years later an even more lengthy struggle began over antiseptic surgery. The germ theory, on which Listers technique was founded had few adherents among British surgeons, and his methods were deemed absurdly complicated. He was opposed and sometimes ridiculed by the most distinguished.