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The Old Operating Theatre with Mark Pilkington | Medical London

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  • Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
  • The Old Operating Theatre was built as an operating theatre for women in 1822 as part of St Thomas' Hospital. The theatre was a working site from 1822 to 1862, before the development of either antiseptics or anaesthesia. Patients were dosed with alcohol and given a wooden pole to bite on to cope with the pain of surgical procedures like amputation.
    This video is from Medical London, a book and website about 2000 years of health and sickness in the capital city, featuring seven self-guided walks. The Old Operating Theatre is a point of interest on the first walk, 'Life and Death by Water: A walk along the Medieval Thames'.
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Комментарии • 38

  • @puppylover4087
    @puppylover4087 6 лет назад +100

    If you all are wondering, they would call in three very strong men to hold down the patient while they were awake, and the doctor would start the surgery. It was a very painful gruesome process for the patient.

  • @nikhilck629
    @nikhilck629 4 года назад +119

    I don't think we should hate on the victorian doctors/surgeons. Without them, we would'nt have modern medicine. There was no anaesthesia at that time. That had to work with limited knowledge and technology. They did the best of whatever little they had.

  • @sjoseph001
    @sjoseph001 6 лет назад +22

    Nice video, of great historical importance. Having said that, in modern medicine, the patient would need to be in hospital for at least 5 days with an open fracture such as this. An open fracture is one in which the skin is lacerated with the fracture open to infection from the outside. The protocol is urgent surgery to clean and fix the fracture, with a minimum course of 5 days intravenous antibiotics and wound observation strictly as an in patient, especially with the size of the laceration described here. I mention this, as the narrator says that this is a minor injury (it is a major injury for sure) and he further says that the patient would be in and out of hospital in an afternoon.

  • @wholeNwon
    @wholeNwon 4 года назад +34

    The fracture described as minor by today's standards actually isn't at all. It's quite serious. I was surprised at the delay of surgical treatment. The natural history of that type of fracture was well known by then.

  • @helraiser666painkil
    @helraiser666painkil 6 лет назад +16

    Brilliant video and very interesting as well but all those poor women going through that kind of pain during operations must of been horrible and also very frightening as well. And I'll always say that Robert Liston was the best doctor/surgeon of all time and he could Amputate a arm or leg in 28 seconds and it took normal surgeons 20 minutes to do a amputation usually. But it's amazing how far surgery has actually come since those days and I think with out the victorians we wouldn't have surgery like it is today would we folks?.

    • @dianedukes3096
      @dianedukes3096 5 лет назад +4

      Stephen Disley You are correct nice to meet fellow medical history buffs, you’ll know about 21st December 1846 at UCH, the world should never forget that date, the first GA in Europe. First successful GA in hospital was 16th of October 1946, William Morton administrated the ether, Willian Warren the surgeon. 10 past 10 in the morning. Tumour on the neck.

    • @wholeNwon
      @wholeNwon 4 года назад +2

      It is said that Liston is the only surgeon to have performed an amputation with a 300% mortality rate!!!

  • @dictator2426
    @dictator2426 5 лет назад +50

    Better name it as butcher house

    • @aprilleerose
      @aprilleerose 4 года назад +2

      Look up the book The Butchering Art

  • @sikrubashahadnur5736
    @sikrubashahadnur5736 4 года назад +1

    Super

  • @markgoddard2560
    @markgoddard2560 4 года назад +3

    With waiting times what they are today, she was seen pretty sharpish I’d say!

  • @aimeethomson7806
    @aimeethomson7806 4 года назад +1

    Sure they were

  • @idoru3242
    @idoru3242 7 лет назад +9

    They would do it would to when that were awake

    • @amoureternel6791
      @amoureternel6791 6 лет назад +1

      NataLie Tacos terrible les hôpital britannique de cete époque je pense qui mioux la salpêtrière de paris

    • @Jonas-yt9bw
      @Jonas-yt9bw 4 года назад +1

      @@amoureternel6791 aaaaahhh

  • @amensaseasan1779
    @amensaseasan1779 4 года назад +1

    อเลทชานเดอร์

  • @breakingames7772
    @breakingames7772 4 года назад +5

    They had morphine, and other drugs

  • @amoureternel6791
    @amoureternel6791 6 лет назад +2

    Tus c'est merde avec le britaniques

  • @effymarvic3646
    @effymarvic3646 6 лет назад

    dengeden gelenlerrr jsjsjsjs

  • @Mabeylater293
    @Mabeylater293 6 лет назад +11

    What kind of “loving” god would allow this to even happen????

    • @melitini
      @melitini 6 лет назад +5

      TruAgape1234 maybe this WAS gods doing.

    • @dizzyaviator3853
      @dizzyaviator3853 6 лет назад

      @@melitini illuminati

    • @semiramisbonaparte1627
      @semiramisbonaparte1627 5 лет назад +1

      you obviously know nothing about God.

    • @ecjraj
      @ecjraj 5 лет назад +1

      Try reading a Bible to find that answer. I'm not trying to be a smarty pants by the way.

    • @realThomastheCat
      @realThomastheCat 5 лет назад +2

      The shit they did in the past is the reason why we live in luxury today. Yes, this is done by a loving God.

  • @g-max2810
    @g-max2810 4 года назад +3

    The Old Testament word of God said what to do, when to do and how to do. Study it and ask for understanding 😊

    • @1mensch999
      @1mensch999 4 года назад +2

      G-Ma X what?

    • @g-max2810
      @g-max2810 4 года назад +3

      1 mensch like saying the life is in the blood and to washing hands with running water. It’s pretty cool to find things like that in the word of God. Our first manual book. Cool huh ?

    • @1mensch999
      @1mensch999 4 года назад +2

      G-Ma X what?

    • @g-max2810
      @g-max2810 4 года назад +1

      1 mensch stop playing 🤦‍♀️