There is nothing more isolating than being alone in a hospital room with the sound of hoarse coughs, sneezing, and nurses or nuns yelling for help from the next room over. This, unfortunately, was the reality for many, young or old, during the twentieth century in Canada, our home today. It is a large alteration compared to the manner our modern day world functions today, including its people and how science has advanced. One hundred and sixteen years after the start of the twentieth century, society has learned to look back and learn from its mistakes that people made in the past. In this case, medical advances are to be focused on, especially since Canadians’ achievements have made our nation and the world a better place today. During
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With the rise of paediatrics as a medical profession, to the movement of containing illnesses to omitting them and the growth of better hospitalization throughout the nation, Canada has undoubtedly succeeded during this time …show more content…
Kenneth Fenwick compared children to adults in his 1889 novel, Manual of Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Paediatrics, “While the infant may be regarded physically as the abstract of the man, possessing the same organs, the same processes of waste and repair, of growth and decay, still there are some important structural and functional differences between childhood and adult life,” justifying that a new field for youngsters is strictly needed. Before Canadians began to hear about what the profession really was about, adult reformers, social workers, religious authorities, lawyers, police officers, nurses and plain doctors strived for the authority of the care of children. When the Canadian Society of Diseases of Children commenced in 1922, practitioners began to fret less; children were beginning to be understood. The government was understood to be a big part of what doctors did or what procedures for care they recommended to families, paediatricians developed solutions to omit illnesses, care for the precious beings that are new to this world, and keep them healthy. Baby incubators and neonatal units were introduced in the beginning of the decade as devices that revolutionized baby care, which could save premature or weak infants. Although incubators’
With the rise of paediatrics as a medical profession, to the movement of containing illnesses to omitting them and the growth of better hospitalization throughout the nation, Canada has undoubtedly succeeded during this time …show more content…
Kenneth Fenwick compared children to adults in his 1889 novel, Manual of Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Paediatrics, “While the infant may be regarded physically as the abstract of the man, possessing the same organs, the same processes of waste and repair, of growth and decay, still there are some important structural and functional differences between childhood and adult life,” justifying that a new field for youngsters is strictly needed. Before Canadians began to hear about what the profession really was about, adult reformers, social workers, religious authorities, lawyers, police officers, nurses and plain doctors strived for the authority of the care of children. When the Canadian Society of Diseases of Children commenced in 1922, practitioners began to fret less; children were beginning to be understood. The government was understood to be a big part of what doctors did or what procedures for care they recommended to families, paediatricians developed solutions to omit illnesses, care for the precious beings that are new to this world, and keep them healthy. Baby incubators and neonatal units were introduced in the beginning of the decade as devices that revolutionized baby care, which could save premature or weak infants. Although incubators’