1. Pneumatic Tyre — 2022-05-03 16:45:33

   …oyd Dunlop 1888 === {{toc}} Dunlop (1840 to 1921) was born in [[Ayrshire]], [[Scotland]] and qualified as a veterinary surgeon before moving to Belfast in 1867. His practice was at 50 Gloucester Street, Belfast, [[Ireland]]. His great invention,…

2. Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24

   …mage url="Intraocular-lens.jpg" class="left" title="Intraocular lens" width="250" }} From 1946, Ridley was a consultant surgeon at St Thomas's, and on February 8th 1950, he became the first person to successfully implant an **artificial lens**. Th…
   …ical congress at Oxford. The news provoked **intense opposition**, especially from **Sir Stewart Duke-Elder**, who was surgeon-oculist to the **Queen**. It was objected because ~'//an ophthalmic surgeon's job was to take material out of the eye…

3. Fingerprints — 2021-08-14 20:06:49

   …image url="Dr_henry_faulds.jpg" class="left" title="Dr. Henry Faulds" width="" }} In 1880, Dr. Henry Faulds, a Scottish surgeon in a Tokyo hospital, published his first paper on the usefulness of fingerprints for identification and proposed a meth…

4. Antiseptic — 2021-08-12 20:38:14

   …800s]] {{toc}} Joseph Lister 5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912 West Ham, [[Essex]], [[England]]. Lister was a British surgeon who pioneered **antiseptic surgery**. Lister successfully introduced carbolic acid to sterilise surgical instruments a…
   …o clean wounds, which led to a reduction in infections and made surgery safer for patients. Lister was appalled that a surgeon was not required to wash his hands before operating on a patient. Surgeons at the time took pride in the accumulated bl…
   …tly published his results in The Lancet in a series of 6 articles, running from March through July 1867. He instructed surgeons to wear clean gloves and wash their hands before and after operations with 5% carbolic acid solutions. Instruments wer…

5. Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23

   …eley**, [[Gloucestershire]] on 17 May 1749, the son of the local vicar. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a local surgeon and then trained in London. In 1772, he returned to Berkeley and spent most the rest of his career as a doctor in his n…

6. Obstetrical Forceps — 2020-06-28 13:29:13

   …The Chamberlens had migrated to England in 1569 to escape the religious violence in France. From his roots as a barber-surgeon working in London, he became the Royal obstetrician-surgeon during the reign of King Charles I. With his brother they…

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