HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Germ Theory Of Disease, Ignaz Semmelweis, Cardiac Arrest
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As medicine becomes specialised, it turns into a specialty itself and then it begins to subdivide into a variety of other specialties: neuro, surgery . Surgery is a foundational aspect of contemporary medicine and it is interesting because: It embodies a lot of features that have become characteristic of contemporary medicine: the tendency to think in terms of precise technical xes. Concepts that underlie the work of surgeons. Technology: what was unique in the 19th century > the technological aspect of surgery. Surgeon"s domain is the outside of the body: external procedures through manual procedures. Dealing with external treatment and all kinds of activities are associated with. The surface of the body: shaving, bloodletting, ointments, pulling teeth . Major interventions were very rare (eg: cutting for bladder stones) Surgeons repaired damage on the body"s surface and understood broadly about the surface of the body. They usually dealt with emergencies through manual meets.
