Scientist during the Industrial revolution learned a lot. From there learning they where able to invent medicine and today this medicine is being used all throughout the world.
A Brief History of the Industrial Revolution
The Article “A History of The Industrial Revolution” by Tim Lambert explains The Industrial revolution just didn’t improve throughout one day, it took many changes to get to where we are today. These changes influenced the improvement in medicine also. “However, although most towns gained gas light in other ways conditions were appalling. They were dirty, overcrowded and unsanitary.” Through these experiences people learned that they were getting sick and they knew that the way people lived had to improve because it was dirty and unhealthy. “Once doctors knew what caused disease they made rapid headway in finding cures or prevention.” Doctors found out that diseases were spread through contact and unsanitized things. They were able to create cures for diseases like smallpox and create antiseptics to kill bacteria. As these advancements happened more was achieved “In 1865 Joseph Lister (1827-1912) discovered antiseptic surgery, which enabled surgeons to perform many more complicated operations. Lister prevented infection by spraying carbolic acid over the patient during surgery.” When these advancements did happen it became a lot easier for surgery to be done and these improvements contributed to more discoveries in medicine
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Victorian Medicine - From Fluke to Theory
In the article “Victorian Medicine - From Fluke to Theory” by Bruce Robinson the author likes to say that before the 18th century medicine was really bad then throughout the Industrial Revolution medicine has improved. Sick people who lived during the Industrial Revolution had to endure a lot because doctors couldn’t help them and would just recommend something like rest or a change of air.”Doctors might recommend a 'change of air' along with vomiting and laxatives and those old favourites, bleeding or leeches. The power of prayer was regularly used. All in all, not ideal. Yet a century later medicine would be available in a form easily recognisable to anybody today: hospitals, stethoscopes, white coats and x-rays.” Living in the Industrial Revolution was difficult because so many diseases could spread and the living conditions was also bad. Eventually this problem was fixed but scientist did learn a lot from this and were able to make improvements “This growth had enormous consequences. Death rates were high, and far worse in cities than in the countryside. Smallpox, typhus and tuberculosis were endemic, and cholera alarmingly epidemic. Overcrowding combined with poor sanitation and often grinding poverty to leave many people vulnerable to the latest outbreak of anything nasty.” Eventually medicine did advance and it made a huge difference in our medicine knowledge today. “Infections and deaths fell sharply and, combined with anaesthesia, enabled surgeons to operate more slowly, carefully and confidently on patients, in turn reaping new discoveries.” The inventions made during the Industrial Revolution not only improved medicine during that time era but helped made improvements and new inventions for the time to pass.
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