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James Jeffray (1759–1848) was a Scottish academic. He was professor of anatomy and botany at the University of Glasgow from 1790 until 1848. This 58 years of professorship is one of the longest in Scottish history. In around 1830 he is credited with invention of the surgical chainsaw, used to remove damaged sections of bone in an accurate manner.
Chainsaw invented by surgeons John Aitken and James Jeffray for widening the birth canal during difficult childbirth [159] Glasgow coma scale: Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974) [160] Glasgow Outcome Scale: Bryan J. Jennett & Sir Michael Bond (1975): diagnostic tool for patients with brain injuries, such as cerebral traumas [161]
Precursors to modern chainsaws were first used in surgery, with patents for wood chainsaws beginning in the late 19th century. A chainsaw comprises an engine, a drive mechanism, a guide bar, a cutting chain, a tensioning mechanism, and safety features. Various safety practices and working techniques are used with chainsaws.
Scotland portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Inventions from Scotland . Articles about things and processes invented, discovered, or developed, by persons of Scottish descent, or on Scottish soil.
In 1847, Scottish obstetrician James Young Simpson (1811–1870) of Edinburgh was the first to use chloroform as a general anesthetic on a human (Robert Mortimer Glover had written on this possibility in 1842 but only used it on dogs). The use of chloroform anesthesia expanded rapidly thereafter in Europe.
surgeon Antiseptic surgery introduced, eponymous Listerine: William Lochead: c.1753–1815 botanist surgeon, curator of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Botanic Gardens: Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet: 1797–1875 geologist, lawyer geology pioneer, (British), foremost of his day John Macadam: 1827–1865 botanist (Scottish-born Australian ...
Prof. Clinical Surgery 1833–48, FRCS (Edin) 1823 Scottish surgeon, invented the Mackintosh raincoat, conducted the first exarticulation of the hip, known for Syme's amputation Michael Woodruff: Chair of Surgical Science 1957–76 British transplant surgeon, performed the first ever kidney transplant in the UK at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary ...
James Hogarth Pringle (born 26 January 1863 in Parramatta, Australia – died 24 April 1941 in Killearn, Scotland) was an Australian-born British surgeon in Glasgow, who made a number of important contributions to surgical practice. He is most famous for the development of the Pringle manoeuvre, a technique still used in surgery today.