So then at some point the Bellevue had to make some changes, due to the fact that Lister theories about the antisepsis had been accepted in the world of medicine.
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Lister left Glasgow in 1869, returning to Edinburgh as successor to Syme as Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh and continued to develop improved methods of antisepsis and asepsis.
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The 19th century discovery of ether and chloroform and their potential for eliminating pain and suffering during surgery along with the importance of antisepsis led to the construction of appropriate facilities for surgery.
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By the 1940s, advances in surgical antisepsis ( now called aseptic technique ) and the science of wound infection led to the adoption of antiseptic drapes and gowns for operating room use.
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While still a student, he traveled to Glasgow in order to study antisepsis under trepanation, he showed that prehistoric flint tools could make trephine holes in a skull in less than 50 minutes.
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The advent of antisepsis and modern obstetrics near the turn of the 20th century demanded perineal shaving, absolute sterility and a surgical aura for childbirth, until it was shown that such precautions were unnecessary.
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During the Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 78 ), the British Red Cross supplied a steel-hulled ship, equipped with modern surgery equipment including chloroform and other anaesthetics and carbolic acid for antisepsis.
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He promoted gynaecology in the Netherlands as a separate speciality, partly because of the new surgical possibilities following the discoveries of anaesthesia and antisepsis and in 1889 he started a private gynaecological clinic at the Sarphatistraat in Amsterdam.
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Although Joseph Lister's pioneering work in antisepsis was known to American doctors, with Lister himself having visited America in 1876, few of them had confidence in it, and none of his advocates were among Garfield's treating physicians.
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These " lying-in " hospitals were established at a time when there was no knowledge of antisepsis or epidemiology, and women were subjected to crowding, frequent vaginal examinations, and the use of contaminated instruments, dressings, and bedding.
