SOC222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Louis Pasteur, Listerine, Antiseptic
22 Oct 2018
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Navy medicine, it was a medicine dependant on anatomy and surgery because it was a medicine evolved from sewing up soldiers" wounds. From the doctor"s point of view this made a problem because on the battlefield there"s plenty of wounds to sew up, but in peacetime people don"t get injured that often. There were far fewer people needing surgery then in war. About 90% today the surgery done is for non-life-threatening surgery in canada these days. Back in the 19th century people didn"t go to a doctor unless they thought their life was threatened. Because back then surgery was both very dangerous and excruciatingly painful. Doctors were often called sawbones, because that"s what most surgery was composed off, cutting off parts of infection. Inhazaztion anaesthesia (inhaled) was not invented until 1840"s or used until 1850"s. A hit of scotch was the only anesthetic prior.
