Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations

Tracklist

• 1
  Introduction - Healing by Hand: Chirurgeons and Surgeons
  22:29
• 2
  Lithotomy - The Stone of Jan de Doot, Smith of Amsterdam
  17:42
• 3
  Asphyxia - The Tracheotomy of the Century: President Kennedy
  20:50
• 4
  Wound Healing - The Royal Prepuce: Abraham and King Louis XVI
  20:23
• 5
  Shock - The Lady and the Anarchist: Empress Sisi
  19:18
• 6
  Obesity - Popes: From Peter to Francis
  18:14
• 7
  Stoma - The Miracle Bullet: Karol Wojtyła
  19:13
• 8
  Fracture - Dr Democedes and the Greek Method: King Darius
  15:20
• 9
  Varicose Veins - Lucy and Modern-Day Surgery: Australopithecus afarensis
  14:00
• 10
  Peritonitis - The Death of an Escape Artist: Harry Houdini
  17:41
• 11
  Narcosis - L’anaesthésie à la reine: Queen Victoria
  15:25
• 12
  Gangrene - The Battle of Little Bay: Peter Stuyvesant
  19:23
• 13
  Diagnosis - Doctors and Surgeons: Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes
  21:25
• 14
  Complications - The Maestro and the Shah: Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
  18:36
• 15
  Dissemination - Two Musicians and Their Big Toes: Lully and Bob Marley
  21:29
• 16
  Abdomen - The Romans and Abdominoplasty: Lucius Apronius Caesianus
  16:59
• 17
  Aneurysm - The Relativity of Surgery: Albert Einstein
  15:08
• 18
  Laparoscopy - Endoscopy and the Minimal Invasive Revolution
  15:06
• 19
  Castration - The History of a Very Simple Operation: Adam, Eve and Farinelli
  22:34
• 20
  Lung Cancer - Thoracotomy at Home: King George VI
  18:12
• 21
  Placebo - The Fifth Man on the Moon: Alan Shepard
  22:23
• 22
  Umbilical Hernia - The Miserable Death of a Stout Lady: Queen Caroline
  24:12
• 23
  Short Stay, Fast Track - Rebels and Revolutions: Bassini and Lichtenstein
  21:00
• 24
  Mors in tabula - The Limits of Surgery: Lee Harvey Oswald
  19:23
• 25
  Prosthesis - Une belle épaule de la belle époque: The Baker Jules Pedoux
  17:56
• 26
  Stroke - The Neck of Vladimir Ilyich Uljanov: Lenin
  20:16
• 27
  Gastrectomy - Cowboys and Surgeons: Frau Thérèse Heller
  20:52
• 28
  Anal fistula - La Grande Opération: King Louis XIV
  24:14
• 29
  Electricity - 600 Volts: The Electric Eel at Artis Zoo
  22:02
• 30
  Epilogue - The Surgeon of the Future: A Top 10
  19:25

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  Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations

  Digital Media
  11 January 2018