Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Medicine in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain.
The era of surgery (c.1846–1870) after anaesthetics were introduced but before antiseptics, where surgical death rates sharply rose due to deep internal infections.
The Black Period appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Medicine in Britain and the Western Front, especially Medicine in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain and Approaches to Prevention and Treatment.
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