The evolution of surgery
Michael Crumplin, Royal College of Surgeons
In this podcast, Michael Crumplin explores the development of military surgery during the Napoleonic Wars. He provides a brief context of the evolution of surgery and outlines the changes in training, surgical knowledge, militarisation, apparatus and patient experience.
Specification overlap:
- Edexcel ‘The British Experience of Warfare’
- OCR ‘The Changing Nature of Warfare’
Michael is a retired general surgeon, a curator and archivist at the Royal College of Surgeons and an authority on battlefield surgery during the Peninsular and Napoleonic Wars.
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- Introduction and lead-up to the Napoleonic Wars
- Changes during the French Wars
- The evolution of surgical techniques
- Changes in surgical equipment
- Patients' experience
- Changes after the Napoleonic Wars
- Surgical developments after 1850