The twelve-hour tonsillectomy
Until fairly recently, tonsillectomy was quite a common procedure – and for many children their first experience of surgery. Because […]
Horrifying operations, Primitive equipment
Primitive equipment
The hearing-aid chair
John Harrison Curtis was a prominent nineteenth-century specialist in diseases of the eyes and ears who became an intimate of
Primitive equipment
Fishing line and marine sponges: the operating theatre of 1888
In 1888 the great American surgeon Rudolph Matas saved the life of a patient who had been shot in the