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Improvements in Medicine
HIS220
Mike Watson
Mrs. Debra Chittur
10/6/2014

Anesthesiology was one of the greatest changes from the nineteenth century. Before anesthesiology was introduced, surgery was horribly gruesome and extremely painful to go through. The first documented general anesthetic was performed by Crawford W. Long in 1842; however Mr. Long did not publish the success of Ether. The first public demonstration of general anesthesia was in 1846 by a Boston dentist named William T.G. Morton at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Cell theory was also conceptualized because back in the nineteenth century you had people that could survive surgery only to pass on from infection a few weeks later and doctors could not explain or figure out why until a man by the name Louis Pasteur a chemist from France first demonstrated that there are microorganisms everywhere. What doctors and hospital staff was able to do with this information was to create chemicals that attacked certain microorganisms and wash their hands in it before surgery and vent it through the surgery room to kill in airborne pathogens. To this very day we still use the improvements in medicine ‘pasteurization’.
There is always going to be advances in medicine for the future, and looking into some of the future advancements in medicine. Real-time diagnostics should be in the focus for the next few years. The intelligent surgical knife (iKnife) was developed by Zoltan Takats of Imperial College London and works by using an old technology where an electrical current heats tissue to make incisions with minimal blood loss, but with iKnife the vaporized smoke is analyzed by a mass spectrometer to detect the chemicals in the biological sample (Meskó, 2013).

References
20 Potential Technological Advances in the Future of Medicine: Part I. | ScienceRoll. (n.d.). Retrieved from