07-02-2003, 02:43 PM
That's an impressive array of equipment.<br>
Yet despite the level of medical sophistication, without the understanding about bacteria, I wonder if it was often a case of 'if the disease didn't kill you the doctor would'? Some of those procedures described are quite invasive.<br>
I know that in the C19th when Dr. Semmelweiss first came up with the idea of handwashing, many women who could have survived childbirth died of puerperal fever caused by doctors moving from patient to patient without washing their hands in between. Often they came straight from dissecting corpses, just wiping their hands down their coats before examining the women!<br>
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Jackie.<br>
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Yet despite the level of medical sophistication, without the understanding about bacteria, I wonder if it was often a case of 'if the disease didn't kill you the doctor would'? Some of those procedures described are quite invasive.<br>
I know that in the C19th when Dr. Semmelweiss first came up with the idea of handwashing, many women who could have survived childbirth died of puerperal fever caused by doctors moving from patient to patient without washing their hands in between. Often they came straight from dissecting corpses, just wiping their hands down their coats before examining the women!<br>
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Jackie.<br>
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