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How Modern Surgery Changed Everything & How to Ask the Right Questions

Something You Should Know

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What Did It Look Like Before the Civil War?

It wasn't till around 19 20 n 19 30 that you began to see what you and i would describe as surgers we know today. During the civil war, they had no understanding of sepsis, of infections. Surgeons did not understand the concept of blood loss and its causing shock until world war one. Once antisepsis was founded, it wasn't quite execty dead, but ad been invented, they were beginning to open the abdomen. So you're opening the abdomen. The patient has not havent any pain. You're roving around inside the abdomenyo, you're doing an appen deck to me. It's taking o longer and longer. While longer

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