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“A Day Without Dissection is a Day Wasted”: Surgery in the 18th Century
Event Duration:
1 hour. From: 11.00 am on Saturday 18 October 2008. To: 12.00 pm on Saturday 18 October 2008.
Details: The eighteenth century saw a variety of changes in surgery, in particular a move from traditional training by apprenticeship to the foundation of hospital and private anatomy schools, such as Hewson’s. Despite the advances in anatomical understanding made by dissection, however, in an era before anaesthetics, surgery could still be a brutal and bloody affair…
£5/£3, not recommended for under 12s
Location:
Benjamin Franklin House. London, England, United Kingdom.
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Posted:
Wednesday 8 October 2008 at 3.36 pm UTC/GMT (8 weeks and 15 hours ago).
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