Robert Liston – a genius surgeon

Wikipedia lists some of the most famous operations performed by Robert Liston.  Among them the only surgery in history with 300% mortality rate:

Liston’s most famous case

Amputated the leg in under 212 minutes (the patient died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene, they usually did in those pre-Listerian days). He amputated in addition the fingers of his young assistant (who died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene, they usually did in those pre-Listerian days). He also slashed through the coat tails of a distinguished surgical spectator, who was so terrified that the knife had pierced his vitals he dropped dead from fright.

That was the only operation in history with a 300 percent mortality.

Via oper.ru.

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