Description

Amazing medical discoveries are producing face transplants, branch transplants, and a number of other formerly us imagined procedures feasible, nowadays. But finding here hasn't been an easy tale of medical improvement. In Blood and Guts, experienced technology writer Richard Hollingham weaves a compelling story in the crucial times in medical background. We've a ringside seat in the operating theatre of University College Hospital in London as world-famous Victorian doctor Robert Liston works an amazing amputation in thirty seconds—from first-cut to remaining stitch.