The Gruesome History of Surgery (1300 - 1900s)

How have surgical techniques evolved over the centuries? In this video compilation, Dan Snow, Alice Loxton, Luke Tomes and Michael Livingstone explore the history of medical procedures from the medieval period, age of gunpowder, victorian times and during the First World War.

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