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Robert Liston FRCSE FRCS FRS (28 October 1794 – 7 December 1847) [1] was a British surgeon. Liston was noted for his speed and skill in an era prior to anaesthetics , when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival.
The Liston knife is a type of knife used in surgical amputation. The knife was named after Robert Liston, [1] a Scottish surgeon noted for his skill and speed in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival. The knife was made out of high-quality metal and had a typical blade length of 6–8 inches.
In the session 1818–1819 Syme became assistant and demonstrator of the dissecting room of Robert Liston, who had started as an extramural teacher of anatomy in competition with Liston's old master, John Barclay; in those years he held also resident appointments in the infirmary and the fever hospital, and spent some time in Paris practising dissection and operative surgery.
Robert Liston performed the first amputation in December of that year. Morton published his experience soon after. [ 105 ] Harvard University professor Charles Thomas Jackson (1805–1880) later claimed that Morton stole his idea; [ 107 ] Morton disagreed and a lifelong dispute began. [ 106 ]
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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 in 1960 Andrew H. Wyllie
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In 1835, Robert Liston became the first professor of clinical surgery at UCH, [4] [5] and the first major operation under ether in Europe was conducted at the hospital by Liston on 21 December 1846. [3]