True but I still wonder what the actual success rates were for invasive procedures? In environments where people presumably didn't know about germs, did their higher level of exposure make their immune systems more robust and able to better fight off the infections resulting from unsanitary surgical environments?
What is your take on these primitive elements of electronics we use today?
When one looks back and realizes that we got to the moon with the help of wooden slide rules, I'd say the technology 50 years from now will be difficult to imagine. Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible in ways that are difficult to forsee.
but I still wonder what the actual success rates were for invasive procedures? In environments where people presumably didn’t know about germs, did their higher level of exposure make their immune systems more robust and able to better fight off the infections resulting from unsanitary surgical environments?””
Most of them died from wound infections, gangrene being but one example.