Author: JHE

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Who discovered laughing gas?
What is an antiseptic?
Who was the first person to use ether?
What is an anesthetic?
What did James Simpson discover?
Who was Robert Liston?
Who was Harold Gillies?
Who used cholorform on her eight child?
How mant blood groups are there?
What is a tourniquet?

Name the three problems associated with surgery?
What was the problem associated with laughing gas as an anaesthetic.
Name two things that made carbolic acid difficult to use.

Describe the Germ Theory.
How did Queen Victoria help get chloroform accepted?
Describe how why there was a need for prosthetic limbs during WWI.

Describe how James Simpson discovered chloroform.
Describe how Ignaz Semmelweiss reduced death rates.
Describe the work of Harold Gillies.

Explain why the clotting of blood was a problem for blood transfusions.
Explain what is meant by the ‘Black Period’ of surgery.
Explain one reason why the carbolic spray took some time to be accepted.

Explain why blood transfusions were not always successful in the mid 19th century.
Explain the problems associated with ether.
Explain the difference between a local and a general anaesthetic.

Explain the reasons why the carbolic spray took so long to be accepted.
Explain the reasons why some people were against chloroform.
Explain the reasons why WWI helped improve surgery.
Explain how WWI helped improve surgery.
Describe the work or Harold Gillies.

The Rules
The pupils must work in pairs. Pupil One will continue his/her break until they can’t answer a question. Pupil Two will then take his/her turn.
The pupil must pot a red first. Once they have potted a red they must pot colour. A maximum of two questions per colour can be potted.
Once all of the reds are potted they must start to pot the colours in numerical order (yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black).