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Timeline History of Surgery

This document presents a timeline that summarizes the most important milestones in the development of surgery throughout history, beginning in prehistory and reaching the 21st century. It covers from the first treatment attempts in ancient times in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome, to the advances in anesthesia, antisepsis and hemostasis in the 19th century that marked the beginning of modern surgery. It also briefly describes the achievements in different fields.
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Timeline History of Surgery

This document presents a timeline that summarizes the most important milestones in the development of surgery throughout history, beginning in prehistory and reaching the 21st century. It covers from the first treatment attempts in ancient times in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome, to the advances in anesthesia, antisepsis and hemostasis in the 19th century that marked the beginning of modern surgery. It also briefly describes the achievements in different fields.
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SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY CENTER

Timeline
History of Surgery
Student: De la Cruz Ruiz Fanny del Rosario
Postbasic Clinical Field in Medical Surgical Nursing
Prof. Luz Angelica Vázquez Abundis
History of Surgery
PREHISTORY HINDUS PRE-COLOMBIAN
Primitive man MESOPOTAMIA
"Medicine SURGERY -
imitates the -Medicine was linked to
“as art” Numerous
behavior of animals the priesthood and -They designed 121 surgical
illness was a instruments -Pioneers in archaeological
and thus reconstructive surgery and finds of
immobilizes a punishment. Rhinoplasties
-Interventions on fractures, trepanations,
lesion, licks wounds EGYPTIANS abscesses, wounds, especially in the
or worries about -The oldest superficial tumors, cesarean
engraving of a hernias and perineum. Aztec and Inca
visible or accessible civilizations
surgical
external lesions
intervention is
Cranial found:
trepanations. circumcision
Wounds were
sutured with plant
fibers or insects.
History of
HIPPOCRATES History of THE MIDDLE AGES
It defines surgery as the treatment of the patient, the -The Arab Abulcasis makes a treatise with a surgical section in
instruments, the time, the method, the place; In his ophthalmology, dentistry, hernia treatment, stone extraction,
treatises there is notable anatomical accuracy and obstetrics, and traumatology.
therapeutic proposals for pleural empyema, head -In Continental Europe, surgical practice is prohibited due to
opposition from the church.
trauma and fractures.
-John de Arderne performs an anal fistula operation and
ROME becomes the father of Proctology.
-Aulus Cornelius Celsus describes 50 types of surgical
instruments for wounds, hemorrhages, arrows or x
varicose veins -3

-Galen of Pergamon described laryngeal nerves, cleft lip

repair and removal of nasal polyps.


History of Surgery
RENAISSANCE
-The first attempt is made BEGINNING OF THE MODERN WORLD (S. XV-XVIII) ILLUSTRATION
to separate barbers from Due to rejection by the university they will be divided into: -THE CENTURY OF SURGEONS
Robe Longue: from royalty who are attached to ancient surgical -Louis XV prohibits barbers
specialized doctors in
texts and operate little. from practicing surgery.
surgical treatments s. Robe Courte: admitted to the faculty but with poor training, they
-John Hunter, from a general
are the town's surgeons.
Surgeons-barbers: Itinerant operators but the most skilled. This point of view, his contribution
is where modern surgery was really born ( Ambroise Paré , was to create the basis of
rejects the healing of fire wounds with boiling oil; Pierre Franco, union between medicine and
treatment of inguinal hernia). surgery.
XIX CENTURY TWENTIETH CENTURY XXI CENTURY
Today the doctor-surgeon is not satisfied with
-The revolution will come with three novelties: 1. GOLDEN AGE OF SURGERY diagnosing and curing, he pursues prevention .
ANESTHESIA: it was tried with nitrous oxide, ether, Technological development has allowed
chloroform. Curiously, there were surgeons who Today's surgery seeks to perfect human nature and
transcendental advances in the field of promote health and beauty.
stated that anesthesia would ruin the surgical surgery; The treatment of the processes of
temperament by having an inert and unconscious the cranial, thoracic and abdominal cavities is
man in front of them. Mainly minimally invasive surgery has reduced
addressed, where the surgeon will encounter recovery times. and the complications
2 .ANTISEPSY: preoperative lavage with a large number of technical problems that
hypochlorite solution and carbolic acid was used postsurgical in many interventions such as:
must be solved. -Laparoscopic surgery
in the treatment of open fractures. Moist heat - Digestive Surgery:
asepsis develops, rubber gloves appear... -Robotization, or Telemedicine.
-Endothoracic Surgery: -Microsurgery
3 .HEMOSTASIA: use of cauterization, vascular
-Cardiovascular Surgery:
ligations, transfusions.
-Neurosurgery:
-Minimally invasive surgery
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Brief history of Medicine Author: Pedro Gargantilla 2011 Ediciones
Nowtilus, SL Madrid, Spain. Consulted on 03/18/21
• Jacobo Trébol López and Mª Dolores Herreros Marcos, 2004/2005
Page.
Web. Consulted on 03/19/21 Available in:
http://lnx.futuremedicos.com/Revista_future/Articulos&Trabajos/
hist oria/HISTORIAQX.htm
• HISTORY of SURGERY Lights and Shadows. Carlos IRISARRI. Consulted
on 03/19/21 Available in
https://www.secot.es/media/docs/actualidad/
HISTORIA_DE_LA_CIRU
GIA_1505.pdf

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