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Dr Robert Liston(the fastest knife in the West End in the 19th century). The man who performed the only operation in history with 300% mortality.
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Fourth most famous case
Removal in 4 minutes of a 45-pound scrotal tumour, whose owner had to carry it round in a wheelbarrow.
Removal in 4 minutes of a 45-pound scrotal tumour, whose owner had to carry it round in a wheelbarrow.
Third most famous case
Argument with his house-surgeon. Was the red, pulsating tumour in a small boy& #39;s neck a straightforward abscess of the skin, or a dangerous aneurism of the carotid artery? & #39;Pooh!& #39; Liston exclaimed impatiently.
Argument with his house-surgeon. Was the red, pulsating tumour in a small boy& #39;s neck a straightforward abscess of the skin, or a dangerous aneurism of the carotid artery? & #39;Pooh!& #39; Liston exclaimed impatiently.
Whoever heard of an aneurism in one so young?& #39; Flashing a knife from his waistcoat pocket, he lanced it. Houseman& #39;s note – & #39;Out leaped arterial blood, and the boy fell.& #39; The patient died but the artery lives, in University College Hospital pathology museum, specimen No. 1256
Second most famous case
Amputated the leg in 21⁄2 minutes, but in his enthusiasm the patient& #39;s testicles as well.
Amputated the leg in 21⁄2 minutes, but in his enthusiasm the patient& #39;s testicles as well.
His most famous case was the operation with 300%mortality. The patient died, the assistant died, a spectator died.
