How Joseph Lister Made Surgery Safer
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For most of 1800s, surgery was disgusting, filthy, and unsafe. Hospitals were places people desperately tried to avoid, and operations didn\\u2019t always result in a clean bill of health. You might even get your testicles accidentally sawed off during a leg amputation. But this all changed with Joseph Lister, who transformed the way that doctors approach surgeries. We talked to Lindsey Fitzharris, author of \\u201cThe Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine\\u201d about how this shift happened.
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