The fermentation of the beverage allowed science to observe something that until then had been invisible: germs ...
“The history of surgery is a series of awe-inspiring, discrete triumphs,” according to this smart survey from historian and surgeon Rutkow (Seeking the Cure). He begins in the Stone Age, when ...
A look at the area of the body where surgery has been most frightening - the brain. Just over 100 years ago, cutting into the brain was a terrifying prospect for both patient and surgeon. They could ...
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