Doctors
during this time period were said to have dressed like proper gentleman. Lots
of pictures were painted of them to make them look extra good. They had cleaned
cut shaves, gold jewelry, expensive looking clothing, or jackets, and
especially looked smart. Although lots of pictures were made of doctors, there
were not many pictures of him doing anything like performing any operations or
examining any patient's. This was because back then it was hard to take a
picture of a moving object, no one really had the right equipment to focus in on
and take a picture fast enough of any object in motion. A man named Josiah
Hawes from Boston was probably the first to take a picture of doctors
performing tasks that make them doctors. Back then only males were doctors and
many times when they performed an operation or examined a patient, rarely any
of them wore gloves, masks, or scrubs. No protective gear was included in these
pictures.
No comments:
Post a Comment