In an era before anaesthetics, when speed mattered in terms of agony and survival, Robert Liston was a British surgeon renowned for his quickness and skill. The West End's "fastest knife" was said to be able to amputate a leg in just over two minutes. He is also notorious for performing the only surgery with a 300% death rate in history. Please join us to learn the entire tale and the horrifying surgical practises of the Victorian era.
Source Materials:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-liston
https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/bloody-hands-dirty-knives-horrors-victorian-medicine
https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/an-appointment-at-the-house-of-death-the-horrors-of-the-early-victorian-hospital/
https://archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/surgeon/3770447-robert-liston
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/darwin/diary/1826.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8672962/
https://www.famousscientists.org/joseph-lister/
