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| Tango01 | 07 Jul 2014 12:31 p.m. PST |
"NEW HISTORICAL MEDICAL SHOW. "Although there were some highly unexpected and profound forms of surgeries and medical treatments even in Ancient Egypt (they even had brain surgeries) and Rome and Greece, the Modern Medicine was born with the industrial revolution in the 19th century (in the medieval times the surgeries were left to barbers and even butchers). That is when the old ideas of infectious disease epidemiology made way to virology and bacteriology. That is when people started being good in identifying and even preventing illnesses but they still didn't know how to cure infections. Before the mid 19th century most surgeons and doctors didn't even wash their hands (even for childbirth and treating wounds), and in the medieval times doctors even thought that spreading pig poop over their patients might save them from infections. First successful blood transfusion was done only in 1818, and first vaccines were invented in 1879. X-rays were invented about the same time THE KNICK is set in. Blood types were discovered only in 1901. and, believe it or not, vitamins were discovered only in 1906! The discovery of penicillin in 1928 changed the course of history and saved hundreds of millions of lives."
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