CRUCIAL INTERVENTIONS

The nineteenth century saw major advances in the practice of surgery. In 1750, the anatomist John Hunter described it as a humiliat ing spectacle of the futility of science/ yet, over the next 150 years the feared, practical men of medicine benefited from a revol ution in scientific progress and the increased availability of instructional textbooks. Anesthesia and antisepsis were introduced. N ewly established medical schools improved surgeons understanding of the human body. For the first time, surgical techniques were re fined, illu...[Read more]