Diseases were rampant during the Industrial Revolution, so doctors had to invent new tools and medicines in order to help cure these problems. Many of these diseases like smallpox and cowpox where killing or making people sick. Surgeries also couldn't be done because of the pain people felt during surgery. It was nearly impossible to keep people still and doctors were very limited.
Medical Advances in Nineteenth-Century America
In the article, “Medical Advances in Nineteenth-Century America” the author Bert Hansen says medicine has advanced fairly well. “Medicine became recognizably “modern” in the nineteenth century, producing new inventions.”One of these inventions was surgical anesthesia. “Before, physicians had repeatedly tried and failed to find an adequate means to instill a temporary suspension of pain. Without any way to control pain, most surgery simply could not be undertaken” With surgical anesthesia surgeries would be easier to do because the pain patients had to endure was reduced for a bit. “The ability to banish pain during surgery (though not during the recovery period) was a medical breakthrough of the highest order and a landmark eminently visible in retrospect.” Back then physicians couldn’t do the surgeries we can do today because they couldn't keep a person still enough to endure the pain. Today anesthesia is used in many surgeries and helped reduce the pain you would normally feel.
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German Scientist Discovers X-rays
In the article “German Scientist discovers X-Rays” a scientist makes a world improvement “physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible”. The discovery of X-rays made it possible to see through your body without having to cut through your skin. To have the ability to see through your body and see your bones made it possible to know what bones were broken and to also know what other things could be in your body “Rontgen’s discovery was labeled a medical miracle and X-rays soon became an important diagnostic tool in medicine, allowing doctors to see inside the human body for the first time without surgery”. To this day X-rays are used for many things besides medicine and it has made a huge improvement in life. “Today, X-ray technology is widely used in medicine, material analysis and devices such as airport security scanners.”
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