Medicine has changed the world
What is the greatest cost of war?
Is it money? Is it the monopolization of resources and efforts which could have been put to better use? Or is it rather the hundreds of thousands deaths? After almost century of war, families have gotten decimated. Some generations are almost inexistent. And The Service is on thin ice with more and more mourning families denouncing the organization's managing of the conflict. The Strategic Society, later named Academical Society has steped up in its efforts to protect soldiers on the field of battle for decades, but a shameful statistic has remained: More than 80 percent of all soldiers wounded in a battle would not make it out alive. It's the year 731.II and people have had enough, something must be made. A team of scientists, led by Laai Felmin, has begun research on the body. But rather than focusing on dead bodies, they go against both rebaari and kalendic rules and observe living people: in military hospitals, on open wounds and severed limbs, they observe the workings of blood, nerves, muscles, and of inner organs. Lungs are seen not as a cooling system but as a way to give "live air" to the body, and get rid of "poison air"; the heart is seen moving, pumping blood through in a closed loop. After several years of research, the scientific community has discovered countless crucial informations on the body's workings. Infections are seen not as internal spoilage, but as an attack from external "harmful intangibles" or "pathogens". Soon, all this knowledge is put to use: in military hospitals, we learn to close a wound without a painful and dirty cauterization. We learn to make clean and protective bandages, burn the instruments to protect from pathogens, and it goes as far as basic surgery attempts to repair a punctured lung, stomach or liver. In the span of a few years, mortality among wounded people has gone from more than 80% to an impressive 25%. This huge success made the SSA's fame swell through the world, and has opened the path to huge progresses in medicine, while saving hundreds of thousands of lives, in the war as well as in the whole world.
Is it money? Is it the monopolization of resources and efforts which could have been put to better use? Or is it rather the hundreds of thousands deaths? After almost century of war, families have gotten decimated. Some generations are almost inexistent. And The Service is on thin ice with more and more mourning families denouncing the organization's managing of the conflict. The Strategic Society, later named Academical Society has steped up in its efforts to protect soldiers on the field of battle for decades, but a shameful statistic has remained: More than 80 percent of all soldiers wounded in a battle would not make it out alive. It's the year 731.II and people have had enough, something must be made. A team of scientists, led by Laai Felmin, has begun research on the body. But rather than focusing on dead bodies, they go against both rebaari and kalendic rules and observe living people: in military hospitals, on open wounds and severed limbs, they observe the workings of blood, nerves, muscles, and of inner organs. Lungs are seen not as a cooling system but as a way to give "live air" to the body, and get rid of "poison air"; the heart is seen moving, pumping blood through in a closed loop. After several years of research, the scientific community has discovered countless crucial informations on the body's workings. Infections are seen not as internal spoilage, but as an attack from external "harmful intangibles" or "pathogens". Soon, all this knowledge is put to use: in military hospitals, we learn to close a wound without a painful and dirty cauterization. We learn to make clean and protective bandages, burn the instruments to protect from pathogens, and it goes as far as basic surgery attempts to repair a punctured lung, stomach or liver. In the span of a few years, mortality among wounded people has gone from more than 80% to an impressive 25%. This huge success made the SSA's fame swell through the world, and has opened the path to huge progresses in medicine, while saving hundreds of thousands of lives, in the war as well as in the whole world.
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