In this episode, we explore the history of Robert Liston, considered "the fastest knife in the west end" of London, in an era before anesthesia. He was also famous for an operation with a 300% mortality rate, and for performing the first operation under ether in Europe. Liston also had many rivals, including a physician that led the charge during the brief and strange history of mesmerism in medicine.
Episode 95 - Non Per Os: The Tale of TPN
Episode 94 - Guy de Chauliac and the Black Death
Episode 93 - The Story of the Mitral Valve
Episode 92 - A Cool Tale about Induced Hypothermia
Episode 91 - Guillaume Dupuytren: The Brigand of the Hotel Dieu
Episode 90 - Alexander Thomas Augusta, a story of courage
Episode 89 - Neurosurgeon Dr. Walter Dandy
Episode 88 - The History of the Parathyroid Gland
Episode 87 - Drs. DeBakey and Cooley, Part 2: Feud and Reconciliation
Episode 86 - Dr. Nikolay Pirogov - Founder of Field Surgery
Episode 85 - Drs. DeBakey and Cooley, Part 1: Origin stories
Episode 84 - The Secret Identity of Dr. James Barry
Episode 83 - Halloween Edition: Shiro Ishii and the infamous Unit 731
Episode 82 - Hugh Hampton Young and the Radical Prostatectomy
Bonus Episode 4 - A History of the Adrenal Glands
Episode 81 - Vesalius and the Birth of Modern Anatomy
Episode 80 - Ambroise Pare, Renaissance Surgeon
Episode 79 - Cracking the Chest: The Brief History of Resuscitative Thoracotomy
Episode 78 - Christiaan Barnard: The Surgeon Who Dared and Interview with Dr. David K. C. Cooper
Episode 77 - Frederick Salmon and the Founding of the St. Mark's Fistula Hospital
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