Primary History Of Syringes

Injections, a childhood horror for many of us. More have very person to be able to faint needle, see that sharp needle, need not plunge into the skin, frighten faint past.

Before, humans had tried to puncture the skin with covered wooden hooks and scalpels, with a predictable rate of failure and a high risk of infection.

· As recorded in the biography of Hua Tuo: if the disease is in the knot, the needle and medicine can not reach, is to make the first to drink Ma Fei San.

For intractable internal diseases that cannot be reached by acupuncture and moxibustion, when surgery is needed to solve them, the preoperative preparation is to drink anaesthesia instead of using anaesthesia.

That's what doctors did in the old days before injections and infusions.

The use of syringes for medical complications was first mentioned by Kelsus in his encyclopedic medical writings in the 1st century Roman period.

The exact method is not known, but we can get a glimpse into the use of needle-less syringes in the Middle Ages.

In 1844, the Irish doctor Francis used a hollow needle to make a recorded subcutaneous injection, injecting a sedative for neuralgia into a patient,

-- The slow arrival of the hypodermic needle.

Wood's biographer, Thomas Browne, described the bee's tail sting as a model, thin enough to Pierce skin and blood vessels for intravenous or intramuscular injection.

In 1858, he was elected President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; But it also changed his life and that of his family because of side effects from the syringe procedure.