In Victorian times, such individuals even
considered anaesthesia during childbirth to be the end of civilisation as they knew it because of a biblical injunction that women ought to give birth in pain.
The building of the local hospital, the ambulance that got me there before I died from blood loss, the image of God in the paramedics that made them give their lives to rescuing people they've never met, the wisdom of the surgeon, the intelligence and skill of the thousands of individuals whose discoveries have made operating theatres and
anaesthesia possible — all of these are gracious gifts of a loving God, whose mercy enables healings to take place across the world that would, in any other generation, be
considered quite miraculous.