Posted on 11/21/2017 5:06:55 AM PST by x1stcav
At the time, the medical community was unaware of the existence of germs and didnt know how infectious diseases were passed on. As a result, cleanliness was not a factor in surgery, leading to gruesome sights and harrowing results.
Surgeons then regarded as low-status workers and often paid less than the men employed to pick lice off hospital beds didnt bother cleaning the blood and guts from surgical tables or their instruments between operations. No one in the operating theater wore gloves, and it was not uncommon to see a medical student with shreds of flesh, gut or brains stuck to his clothing.
Hospitals were so deadly that surgeries done at home usually on ones kitchen table had a much greater survival rate than those done in a house of medicine.
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Good point and suggestion.
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