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Medicine breakthroughs - Coggle Diagram
Medicine breakthroughs
First world war
Blood loss
Blood could be separated
The triage system was developed
Infections
New ways of fighting infections was discovered.
Cutting away infected tissue was better.
Surgery
New techniques to repair broken bones.
Modern plastic surgery was invented.
Second world war
Penicillin
Mould growing was found accidentaly.
It was potential to fight infections.
Surgical Techniques
Discovered a new form of skin graft.
Blood could be stored in bulk.
Combating diseases
They found that they could limit spread of malaria.
Mosquitos transmitted the malaria.
Improvements to public health
They created the British national health service.
Many countries were economically devasted.