In this episode, we’ll explore how surgery was transformed in the nineteenth century through the introduction of anaesthetics, antiseptics, and aseptic techniques. We’ll discuss the challenges surgeons faced before these innovations and how breakthroughs like chloroform and carbolic acid changed medical practice. Finally, we’ll examine how the adoption of aseptic surgery set the stage for the safer, more advanced procedures we rely on today.

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