The 33rd episode of the NHK Asadora drama series "Kaze,Kaoru " (NHK General, Monday-Saturday 8:00 AM, etc.), starring Ai Mikami and Juri Kosaka , aired on May 13th, and a surgery scene featured in the episode attracted the attention of viewers.
Rin (Mikami) is assigned to a patient during her clinical training, Sonobe (Nozoe Yoshihiro), whose leg wound is causing severe pain, requiring a second surgery. Professor Imai (Furukawa Yudai) performs the surgery, but he does not wear surgical gowns or other protective attire, remaining in just a shirt and vest. He also performs the surgery without a mask or gloves. Furthermore, the anesthesia is administered by dripping liquid onto gauze around the patient's mouth and having him inhale it.
On social media, people expressed their astonishment at the Meiji-era surgery, which is unimaginable from a modern perspective, with comments such as, "So this is what surgery was like back then," "This is the first time I've seen a surgery scene from this era. The method of anesthesia was shocking," "They didn't even have surgical gowns...", "What surprised me the most was that the doctor was performing surgery in a regular suit. It makes me think that Japan at that time had zero sense of hygiene, even before considering medicine," "The anesthesia worked just by going through the mouth!?", and "Meiji-era medicine and surgery scenes from that time are very interesting."
