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Surgical and Perioperative Discovery

Discoveries that made surgery survivable or practical: pain control and infection control around an operation. Belongs here: Anesthesia and the Discovery of Antisepsis. Does not belong here: a discovery about the cause of infection in general rather than its control during surgery specifically, grouped under bacteriological and antimicrobial discovery.

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Discovery Era
1842 1
Discovery Kind
surgical-technique 1
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1. History of Surgery (Wikipedia)
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  • History of surgery, anesthesia section, era
    Beginning in the 1840s, European surgery began to change dramatically in character with the discovery of effective and practical anesthetic chemicals such as ether
  • History of surgery, anesthesia section, kind
    Beginning in the 1840s, European surgery began to change dramatically in character with the discovery of effective and practical anesthetic chemicals such as ether
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