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Instructive and gruesome in equal parts, this program enters the operating theater with eyes wide open to observe how "fast and dirty" surgery-inexpressibly brutal in the time before anesthesia-led to 19th-century breakthroughs in the area of pain...
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Contents
Ordeal of Surgery (3:29) -- Robert Liston: Showman Surgeon (3:29) -- Ether: Revolutionary Painkiller (3:56) -- Science of Pain Control (2:24) -- Painless Surgery (2:25) -- Chloroform: Perfect Anesthetic? (4:24) -- Opposition to Chloroform (3:33) -...
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