Illustration of Thomas Spencer Wells,a London surgeon,during an abdominal operation on a woman patient. Spencer Wells lived from 1818 to 1897. He is remembered as the inventor of the Spencer Wells forceps,a common design of clamp still used to seal blood vessels. The patient is receiving chloroform as an anaesthetic,introduced into medicine in 1847 by Sir James Young Simpson as a more convenient substance compared to the previously used ether | |
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