{"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
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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<\/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 — thinking that the knife had pierced his vitals — that he fainted from fright, and was later discovered to have died from shock.<\/p>\n

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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 … <\/p>\n

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