{"id":16376,"date":"2012-07-04T13:13:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T11:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16376"},"modified":"2012-07-04T13:13:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T11:13:43","slug":"robert-liston-a-genius-surgeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/04\/robert-liston-a-genius-surgeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Liston – a genius surgeon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wikipedia<\/a> lists some of the most famous operations performed by Robert Liston. \u00a0Among them the only surgery in history with 300% mortality rate:<\/p>\n

Liston’s most famous case<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amputated the leg in under 21<\/sup>\u20442<\/sub>\u00a0minutes (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.<\/p>\n

That was the only operation in history with a 300 percent mortality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Via oper.ru<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Wikipedia lists some of the most famous operations performed by Robert Liston. \u00a0Among them the only surgery in history with 300% mortality rate: Liston’s most famous case Amputated the leg in under 21\u20442\u00a0minutes (the patient died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene, they usually did in those pre-Listerian days). He amputated in addition the … Continue reading Robert Liston – a genius surgeon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[350,2418,1336,351,3028,1206],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-health","tag-humor","tag-inspiration","tag-medicine","tag-robert-liston","tag-surgery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16384,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/08\/weekly-digest-2012-07-08\/","url_meta":{"origin":16376,"position":0},"title":"Weekly digest – 2012-07-08","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Maxim #earlybird #kids #parenting http:\/\/t.co\/y6mX4W3m # Flash for Android no more, or is it? http:\/\/t.co\/icywAz7d # I just unlocked the \u201cPorky\u201d badge on @foursquare for checking in to barbecue spots! 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