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"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. You look at the world around you, and take it apart into its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Automaton Steam Surgeon | ||
| Mechanized surgery. |
This is the earliest fictional reference to the idea of a robotic or autonomous doctor or surgeon.
| Immediately upon their arrival, Prince Ferdinand and Lord Edmund had their wounds dressed by the automaton steam surgeon belonging to the prison, which, being properly arranged and wound up, staunched the blood, spread the plasters, and affixed the bandages with as much skill as though it had done nothing but walk a hospital all its life. As soon as these operations were performed, the prisoners were locked up in separate cells, and left to meditate upon their situations. |
| Technovelgy from The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century,
by Jane Webb Loudon. Published by Not known in 1828 Additional resources -
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Compare to robot surgery from Secret of the Buried City (1939) by John Russell Fearn and robot surgeon from The Bicentennial Man (1976) by Isaac Asimov.
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