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GCSE History · key term
The destruction of microorganisms on an object, for example by treating surgical instruments with heat or steam.
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Paper 2
Revise: Revolution in SurgeryScience and technology supplied anaesthetic chemicals, germ theory and sterilisation equipment. Communication, including medical journals, allowed successful approaches to spread beyond one doctor or hospital. Surgery changed through these connections, not through a single discovery that solved every problem.
Paper 3
A medical procedure that prevents a person from having children. The Nazis forcibly sterilised people they considered hereditarily ‘unfit’.
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Roma and Sinti could face compulsory sterilisation and imprisonment.