We really do not realize how lucky we are until we review the history books of medicine and recognize that most Victorian surgical practices (1837-1901) were fundamentally medieval. Between the 1840s and the mid-1890s, the operating room underwent profound changes that became a surgical revolution. However, many patients have had to suffer until then. The high mortality rate during this period is widely reported in newspapers, medical journals and coroners surveys; even the healthiest people could not survive a surgical operation. It was really a difficult time to be a Victorian who needed an operation, but thanks to advances in
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