Including the story of the tragic Pollard case and the horror of Georgian and Victorian infirmaries…..the great surgeons were the quickest, the average time for cutting the stone about one minute. The surgeon Robert Liston performed an amputation of someone’s leg in 28 seconds amputating not only the limb but also 3 of his assistant’s fingers in the process. The patient and the assistant died of sepsis 5 days later as did someone in the audience from a heart attack. It was the most mortal procedure ever performed!

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Music: Azure Instrument by Alice in Winter

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