Skip to main content

Previous

Online: Fascism in interwar Britain

Next

The Cuban missile crisis

Surgery in the nineteenth century

Salma Barma investigates how James Simpson and Joseph Lister made surgery safer during the nineteenth century

Source A A painting by Ernest Board of Robert Liston performing the first surgical operation in England with ether as an anaesthetic, 21 December 1846
© Wellcome Library, London/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

AQA Britain health and the people c.1000 to the present day

Edexcel Medicine in Britain, c.1250–present

Your organisation does not have access to this article.

Sign up today to give your students the edge they need to achieve their best grades with subject expertise

Subscribe

Previous

Online: Fascism in interwar Britain

Next

The Cuban missile crisis

Related articles: