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327:, six days later. The funeral procession from his home consisted of five mourning coaches and fifteen private carriages. In the former were relatives and his fellow medical professors of University College, and in the latter were friends of eminence in the higher ranks of society. Near the cemetery, the cortege was met by four hundred of his former pupils, and by about two hundred medical practitioners and others. He was buried on the western side of
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days). He amputated in addition the fingers of his young assistant (who died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene). He also slashed through the coat tails of a distinguished surgical spectator, who was so terrified that the knife had pierced his vitals he fainted from fright (and was later
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Paterson's body in Knox's rooms and immediately suspected foul play. He knocked Knox down after an altercation in front of his students β Liston assumed some students had slept with her when she was alive, and that they should dissect her body offended his sense of
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on that era: "There was no object in being clean...Indeed, cleanliness was out of place. It was considered to be finicking and affected. An executioner might as well manicure his nails before chopping off a head." The connection between surgical hygiene, infection, and maternal mortality rates at
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Such was the era in which Liston lived. Gordon states that Liston was "an abrupt, abrasive, argumentative man, unfailingly charitable to the poor and tender to the sick (who) was vilely unpopular to his fellow surgeons at the
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He relished operating successfully in the
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Liston's image has been preserved in both bust and portrait form. Following Liston's death, a meeting was held of his friends and admirers, who "unanimously resolved to establish some public and lasting
Testimonial to the memory of this distinguished surgeon". A committee of some 78 people was
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He was six foot two, and operated in a bottle-green coat with wellington boots. He sprung across the blood-stained boards upon his swooning, sweating, strapped-down patient like a duelist, calling, 'Time me gentlemen, time me!' to students craning with pocket watches from the iron-railinged
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429:"outraged obstetricians, particularly in Philadelphia". In those days, "surgeons operated in blood-stiffened frock coats β the stiffer the coat, the prouder the busy surgeon", "pus was as inseparable from surgery as blood", and "Cleanliness was next to prudishness". He quotes
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formed, which resolved that the testimonial should consist of a marble statue to be placed in some designated public spot, and the inauguration of a gold medal, to be called the "Liston Medal", "and awarded annually, as the
Council of University College, may decide".
757:. Philadelphia: Ed. Barrington & Geo D. Hasswell. Simultaneously published in: New York, by J. & H.G. Langley; Charlestone, S.C., by WM. H. Berrett; Richmond, V.A., by Smith, Drinker & Morris; Louisville, KY, by James Maxwell, Jr
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galleries. Everyone swore that the first flash of his knife was followed so swiftly by the rasp of saw on bone that sight and sound seemed simultaneous. To free both hands, he would clasp the bloody knife between his teeth.
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on patients they had discharged as hopelessly incurable. They conspired to bar him from the wards, banished him south, where he became professor of surgery at
University College Hospital and made a fortune".
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He performed the first public operation utilizing modern anaesthesia, ether, in Europe on 21 December 1846 at the
University College Hospital. His comment at the time: "This Yankee dodge beats
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This episode has since been dubbed as the only known surgery in history with a 300 percent mortality rate. The situation that Gordon labels "Liston's most famous case" has been described as
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In writings on Liston, he is portrayed as a man of strong character and ethics, which was the source of some of his confrontational style. In one case, he confronted a medical colleague (
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minutes." He is reputed to have been able to complete operations in a matter of seconds, at a time when speed was essential to reduce pain and improve the odds of survival of a patient.
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chapter one. A comparison of the 1983 edition and the viewable online text shows no discernible deletions of text. Certainly chapter one appears word-for-word, as does chapter 11 (
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While Liston's pioneering contributions are paid tribute within popular culture such as
Richard Gordon, they are best known within the medical fraternity and related disciplines.
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Gordon's prose is more than just caricature. He describes how the link between surgical hygiene and iatrogenic infection was poorly understood at that time. At an address by
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Centenary of the first public operation under an anæsthetic in Europe carried out at
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Practical Surgery, with Notes and Additional Illustrations by George W. Norris, one of the surgeons to the Pennsylvania Hospital
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689:(Note: The volume listing for Google is incorrect, as evidenced by the first page which clearly states "volume the twentieth").
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the operator's success will be in direct ratio to his quickness."
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wine merchant. In 1818, he had become house surgeon in
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at general-anaesthesia.com on BTLC Research website.
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