Reels tagged #surgery
Inventions
Surgery before anaesthesia was timed in seconds
Surgeons competed to amputate a leg in under a minute because patients were awake. Ether anaesthesia, demonstrated publicly in 1846, changed surgery forever.
Surgeons competed to amputate a leg in under a minute because patients were awake. Ether anaesthesia, demonstrated publicly in 1846, changed surgery forever.