Timeline for Maintaining a hospital after the apocalypse?
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| May 24, 2018 at 15:42 | comment | added | dmm | Also: they have medical books, but not chemistry books, etc.? If so, then an obvious thing they need are other science books so they can understand the medical books. | |
| May 24, 2018 at 15:39 | comment | added | dmm | So, it's been centuries (of chaos), and they can still read the ancient medical books. Is this because 1) literacy and English survived the centuries of chaos, or 2) the ORE is a group of scholars who can still read English well, or 3) the ORE is a group of scholars who translate the ancient texts as best they can? (Again, affects answers.) | |
| May 19, 2018 at 18:23 | answer | added | TCAT117 | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 18, 2018 at 20:18 | comment | added | Talos 6 | @dmm: It only destroyed infrastructure, and the ORE people have medical books in those library | |
| May 18, 2018 at 16:55 | comment | added | dmm | Important questions: 1) Did the apocalypse destroy civilization so badly that all modern knowledge was lost (and your world has rebuilt itself from the stone age to the 1680s), OR was only the infrastructure destroyed? 2) Were there pockets of learning left (like after the fall of Rome), OR was everything destroyed? Your exact situation will greatly affect the answers given. | |
| May 18, 2018 at 13:33 | comment | added | SZCZERZO KŁY | @Talos6 describing the apocalypse would be good. There is no reason for any APO do push us technologically more than end of XIX century. And Centuries to remade knowledge and know how is enough. (it take 3 of them to move from 1680 to 1980) | |
| May 18, 2018 at 11:21 | comment | added | Talos 6 | @SXCZERZO KŁY: Yeah it was that bad | |
| May 18, 2018 at 9:39 | comment | added | AlexP | Painkillers are a luxury, anaesthetics are a necessity. Chloroform is not that difficult to make, and historically it was the first anaesthetic used on a large scale. Antiseptics are quite easy -- alcohol works, carbolic alcid works, autoclaves work very well are still in use. Catgut has been in use for surgical sutures since the antiquity. | |
| May 18, 2018 at 9:18 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 18, 2018 at 9:02 | comment | added | SZCZERZO KŁY | Why 1680? What made the apocalypse so fierce that after CENTURIES people are stuck at 1680? | |
| May 18, 2018 at 8:47 | comment | added | Raditz_35 | If you're going to do that, you should do some research on medical history, e.g. how the first real painkillers were obtained - beyond what people might write here. This is just a friendly recommendation. It's easily available information that you clearly lack and a lot of it is kind of common knowledge, you should really be as knowledgeable as e.g. 50 % of your readers - or whoever encounters your world | |
| May 18, 2018 at 8:16 | comment | added | Burki | cannabis seems to be a decent painkiller. and it grows like weed, so no trouble obtaining it | |
| May 18, 2018 at 3:29 | history | edited | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 18, 2018 at 0:42 | answer | added | Thorne | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 18, 2018 at 0:21 | answer | added | Chromane | timeline score: 12 | |
| May 18, 2018 at 0:06 | history | edited | Talos 6 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 18, 2018 at 0:00 | history | asked | Talos 6 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |