I goofed up last time, we're actually going to talk about abdominal surgery this week. Abdominal surgery pretty much stems from two old operations. The first, colostomies, was proposed by Alex Littre, and then actually done by Claude Duret. The second, ovariotomies, or the removal of ovarian cysts, was pushed forward by Ephraim McDowell, despite much resistance.

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