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