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June 14, 2012 04:12 pm PDT
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Horror stories from the history of surgery
Sometimes, it's a little mind blowing when you remember just how recently medicine passed from the world of art/magic/tradition and into the realm of science. There's plenty of reason to argue that the transformation still isn't complete today, but I'm really mesmerized by stories from the 19th century, when every surgery was something of an [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bzEMYyTYlI4/horror-stories-from-the-histor.html
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