Elizabethan and Modern day surgeries

In the renaissance, many new inventions and ideas were thought up in the medical world but they also stuck with a lot of older techniques that seemed to work fine. Though it doesn’t sound good, many of their methods we still use today, because there is really no way to get around them. And some became obsolete and were changed a long time ago.
Many medical instruments or tools that were used for amputation or surgery were just ordinary knives or saws. That is one of the things that hasn’t changed from then until now. Today, they still use scalpels which a...