{"id":32997,"date":"2021-10-25T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.blog\/?p=32997"},"modified":"2021-10-25T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T20:58:00","slug":"robert-liston-and-the-surgery-with-a-300-mortality-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2021\/10\/25\/robert-liston-and-the-surgery-with-a-300-mortality-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Liston and the surgery with a 300% mortality rate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewingramblog.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/01\/surgery.png?w=900\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/surgery.png 900w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/surgery-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/surgery-768x407.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert Liston was a British surgeon in the 19th century who was noted for his speed and skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Liston\">In his most famous case<\/a>, he amputated a leg in under 2.5 minutes, but the patient died afterwards from gangrene (not uncommon in those days). As a result of his desire for speed, Liston also amputated two fingers of his young assistant (who also later died from gangrene). And he slashed through the coattails of a distinguished surgical spectator, who was so terrified &#8212; thinking that the knife had pierced his vitals &#8212; that he fainted from fright, and was later discovered to have died from shock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Liston was a British surgeon in the 19th century who was noted for his speed and skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival. In his most famous case, he amputated a leg in under 2.5 minutes, but the patient died afterwards from gangrene &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2021\/10\/25\/robert-liston-and-the-surgery-with-a-300-mortality-rate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robert Liston and the surgery with a 300% mortality rate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}