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Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/4ldSpFJLSB0/graphic-description-of-mastect.html
Graphic description of mastectomy sans anesthesia in 1855
From Letters of Note, this incredible letter written in 1855 by Lucy Thurston, a 60-year-old missionary in Hawaii who had breast cancer. She underwent a mastectomy with no anesthesia. She wrote the following letter to her daughter a month later and described the unimaginably harrowing experience. The procedure was a success. Lucy Thurston lived for [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/4ldSpFJLSB0/graphic-description-of-mastect.html
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