There was an attempt made for a successful surgery..300% Mortality (www.thevintagenews.com)

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Robert Liston performed the only operation with a 300% mortality rate; His patient, his assistant and a spectator died. I'm questioning if it was attempted though, it kinda seems like you'd have to try to kill all three...

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[-] Robert7301201@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 year ago

In that chaos, Liston started to move so fast that he accidently cut his assistant’s fingers off and also slashed a spectator’s coat.

The spectator thought that he was hurt and died of terror on the spot.

Was this a thing back in the day? You get a little terrified and just drop dead?

[-] Meloku@feddit.cl 10 points 1 year ago

Terror induced heart attack, maybe?

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