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Gruesome and Surreal Surgical Illustrations from the 15th–19th Centuries
In 1811, nearly four decades before the advent of anesthesia, the English novelist Fanny Burney underwent a mastectomy for breast cancer. Later, Burney wrote a long letter to her sister, Esther, describing this battlefield-style operation. Her account remains one of the most famous and gut-wrenching descriptions of pre-anesthesia surgery ever written...
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