Blood and Guts (37 page)

from Robert Liston's surgery

from transplant surgery

and hygiene

neurosurgical

Morton, William

mortuaries

mouths, plastic surgery for

Murray, Joseph

musket shots

Mustard, William T.

Myrick, Henry

NASA

National Heart Hospital, London

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London

Nazis

neurosurgery

brain tumours

electronic implants

lobotomy

neutrophils

Nevada

New York Times
(newspaper)

Nightingale, Florence

Nissen huts

nitrous oxide

Norfolk & Norwich Hospital

Normandy, France

nose jobs

nuclear energy

obstetrics

oil, boiling

Old Operating Theatre, London

operating instruments

operating microscopes

operating tables

orbitoclasts (lobotomy tool)

Owen, Earl

oxygen

consumption

and heart-lung machines

transport

pacemakers

Paget, Sir Stephen

pain

thresholds

pain-relief

alcohol and

using brain implanted electrodes

see also
anaesthetic

pancreas transplants

paraffin wax injections (cosmetic)

paraffinoma (wax cancer)

paralysis

Paré, Ambroise

Paris

Parker, Dr

Parkinson's disease

Pasteur, Louis

patient choice

pedicles

tube

waltzing tube

penicillin

penis, cosmetic construction

Pergamum, Asia Minor

pericardium

Perry, Heather

Perth

Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Philadelphia Jefferson Hospital

phlegm

pig studies

'piggyback' operation

pioneering surgery

placebo effect

plastic surgery

burns

nose jobs

sex change operations

pneumonia

portal vein

post-mortems

see also
autopsies

potassium chloride

potassium citrate

poultices

priests

prosthetic limbs

psychiatric hospitals

psychotropic drugs

pulse

pupil contracture

purging

Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead

Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, Kent

radiation sickness

radiation therapy, total body irradiation

railway work

red blood cells

Red Cross

Renaissance

resurrectionists

rheumatic fever

Richmond, Calvin

riots

Riteris, John

road traffic accidents

Roberts, Alice

Robinson, Dr

Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York

Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Paris

Romans

Ross, Donald

Royal College of Surgeons

Royal Flying Corps

Royal Free Hospital

Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh

Royal Society

Rugio, Paulo Santoni

Rutland & Burlington Railroad

Saburido, Jacqueline

St Bartholomew's Hospital

St Elizabeths Hospital, Washington DC

St Rokus Hospital, Pest

salves

Sandoz

Santo, Cesare Giovanni

Savage, David

Savage, Karen

saws

scarifiers

schizophrenia

childhood

Scotsman
(newspaper)

Sea, Private A.J.

Second World War

seizures

induction

see also
convulsions; fits

Semmelweis, Ignaz

Servelle, Marcel

sewage treatment

sewing up

blood vessels

sutures

sex change operations, female to male

Shaw, George Bernard

Shaw, Mike

shivering

shock

shrapnel

Shumway, Norman

sight loss

Simpson, James

skeletons

bones of the

stripping the flesh of

skin, pedicles

Smith, Dr

Snow, John

spectators

Spence, James

Spitfires

Spreckley, Michael Gillies

Spreckley, Lieutenant William

squints

stab wounds

status quo, questioning the

stem cell research

sterilization, forced

steroids

Stowell Park

stroke

sugar

sulphonamide

Superhuman
(TV series)

superior vena cava

superstition

surgical gloves

surgical gowns

see also
frock coats

surgical masks

Surpanakha

survival rates, transplant surgery

sutures

catgut

triangulation method

syphilis

T cells

helper

killer

Tagliacozzi, Gaspare

testosterone tablets

tetralogy of Fallot

thalamus

Thomas, E. Donnall

Thompson, Geraldine

ticks

Time
(magazine)

tissue cultures

tissue typing

toenails, ingrowing

tooth transplants

Toronto General Hospital

total body irradiation

tourniquets

Petit's improved

trainees

transfusions

transmagnetic stimulation (TMS)

transplant surgery

face

hand

heart

and the immune system

kidney

liver

perfusion experiments

psychological effects

rejection

survival rates

tissue typing

tooth

trepanning

triangulation

trust in surgery, misplaced

tumours

Turin, Italy

Turin, siege of

twins

identical

non-identical

ulcers, syphilitic

United States

United States Army, 160th United States General Army Hospital

University of Bologna Medical School

University College Hospital, London

University Hospital, Minneapolis

University of Pest

urine

van Brackle, Shirley

veins

facial

great saphenous

inferior vena cava

and kidney dialysis

portal

sewing up

superior vena cava

Venice

ventricles

holes between

left

ventricular fibrillation

Vermont

Vesalius, Andreas

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Vichy government

Victoria, Queen

Vienna

Vienna General Hospital

Viennese Medical Journal

von Bergmann, Ernst

war wounds

facial

see also
battlefields; field hospitals

Washington, George

Washkansky, Louis

water, immersion in near-freezing

Watts, James

Wellington bombers

Wells, H.G.

West, Frederick

Westaby, Steven

white blood cells

destruction

Wilkerson, Dr

Williams, Edward

X-rays

yellow bile

Your Life in Their Hands
(TV series)

Ypres

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