Some significant operations and inventions included, amputations, the emerge of plastic surgery, the anesthesia inhaler, and the invention of canned food. With the process of amputating, doctors could hinder the danger of infection by removing the injured area immediately. Union surgeons only lost 25% of their patients as compared to 75% of patients with similar injuries. In addition, people like Doctor Benjamin Howard helped save lives by researching and comprehending the science behind the injury. Howard recognized that in order to heal chest wound, one must create an airtight seal in the opening of the chest cavity which would stop the lungs from collapsing and suffocating the patient. Survival rates have quadrupled ever
Some significant operations and inventions included, amputations, the emerge of plastic surgery, the anesthesia inhaler, and the invention of canned food. With the process of amputating, doctors could hinder the danger of infection by removing the injured area immediately. Union surgeons only lost 25% of their patients as compared to 75% of patients with similar injuries. In addition, people like Doctor Benjamin Howard helped save lives by researching and comprehending the science behind the injury. Howard recognized that in order to heal chest wound, one must create an airtight seal in the opening of the chest cavity which would stop the lungs from collapsing and suffocating the patient. Survival rates have quadrupled ever