How Did The Industrial Revolution Stem From The Medical Revolution?

Medicine has existed since ancient Egypt, meaning there have been many changes to technology and remedies. Although it has existed for thousands of years, much of the treatments and technology used in medical settings today stem from the Medical Revolution. In the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution sparked many scientific discoveries and inventions that altered working conditions, infectious diseases such as smallpox, typhus, and tuberculosis accompanied these improvements. Scientists rushed to learn more about these diseases and how they could resolve this problem, which meant new technology needed to be developed. Eventually, this led to a period of new theories and scientific advances. The Medical Revolution was a significant period
According to the National Library of Medicine, “Variation was never risk-free. Not only could the patient die from the procedure, but the mild form of the disease which the patient contracted could spread, causing an epidemic”(SMALLPOX 11 March 2024). Clearly, variolation was unreliable, and finding a new way to treat patients was urgent. In 1796, Edward Jenner became the first person to invent a successful vaccination when he discovered that milkmaids exposed to cowpox never got infected by smallpox. Statistica states, “Within this century, the number of people dying annually from smallpox dropped from 3,000 per million people in the 1700s, to just ten people per million in the 1890s.the number of smallpox deaths per million people had already fallen to a fraction of its eighteenth century level, and compulsory vaccination reduced these numbers even further” (Statistica 13 March 2024). In just a few years, vaccination has put an end to smallpox. This was only the beginning of vaccination, as many other scientists followed after Jenner, for example, Pasteurs’ post-exposure rabies vaccine, and Haagen’s yellow fever