TIL of a surgery with a 300% mortality rate. During an amputation, Dr. Robert Liston accidentally cut his assistant's fingers off and later slashed an observer's coat. The observer, thinking he'd been stabbed, dropped dead of shock, and the patient and assistant died afterwards of infected wounds.
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Submitted March 04, 2018 at 04:24PM by EarlyHemisphere http://ift.tt/2thMxLN
Submitted March 04, 2018 at 04:24PM by EarlyHemisphere http://ift.tt/2thMxLN
TIL of a surgery with a 300% mortality rate. During an amputation, Dr. Robert Liston accidentally cut his assistant's fingers off and later slashed an observer's coat. The observer, thinking he'd been stabbed, dropped dead of shock, and the patient and assistant died afterwards of infected wounds.
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