Surgery

Anaesthetics (dealing with pain)

Lack of anaesthetics held back the development of surgery due to the mass amount of pain patients was in, not many operations could be taken place. The common type of surgery was amputation, the operations had to be quick, simple and not going too deep in the body because this could have cause problems like blood lost and the patient dying out of shock and pain. Thanks to surgeons the anaesthetics problem was solved by 1900 and gave opportunity for variety of operations, which led to more lives being saved.

The first two anaesthetics was nitrous oxide