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With no effective anesthetics or antiseptics, surgery prior to the late 19th century was brutal to endure and often ended in a death sentence for even the most minor of procedures. The advent of operating theatres helped build the bridge between primitive medicine and the modern operating room we know today. While certainly terrifying for the patient or the average spectator, operating theatres played an essential role in the evolution of surgery, offering a space where doctors and medical students could witness the greatest surgeons of their time hone their craft and better the field through their triumphs and tragedies. Medical Milestones: Discovery of Anesthesia & Timeline, UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCESThe Most Beautiful Anatomical Theaters by Allison Meier, Atlas Obscura, MAY 7, 2014Anaesthesia and the Practice of Medicine: Historical Perspectives - PMCA Look Inside America’s Oldest Hospital & the Oldest (Existing) Operating Theater in the World – Secrets of PhiladelphiaReciprocal Evolution of Opiate Science from Medical and Cultural Perspectives - PMCHistory of Cataract Surgery - EyeWikiSurgery | The Old Operating Theatre MuseumHistoric Tours of Pennsylvania Hospital, Pennsylvania Hospital WebsiteThe History Of the Barber Surgeon - Barber Surgeons Guild®Trephination - World History EncyclopediaHistory of the Operating Room - Optimus Integrated Surgical Environment"Inside the Operating Theater: Early Surgery as Spectacle" by Rebecca Rego Barry, JSTOR Daily, December 9, 2015Joseph Lister’s antisepsis system | Science Museum
