SURGIA Newsletter: General Surgery Edition Volume II Issue 1 | Página 15

“General surgeon and medical
historian Ira Rutkow argues that
the sophistication of surgery
and its specialties grew, starting
from the 1880s, based on four
fundamental areas of knowledge,
namely that of anatomy, the control
of haemorrhage, the pathophysiological understanding of
diseases, anaesthesia as well as
infection control.”