History GCSE
Surgical Advancements
What Surgical Advancements means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Surgical Advancements
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Anaesthetics and antiseptics revolutionised surgery, with chloroform solving the problem of pain and carbolic acid dramatically reducing post-operative infection.
Topics that use Surgical Advancements
- Option 11: c1700–c1900: Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain - 2 Approaches to prevention and treatment (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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