Plot: How surgery was dragged out of the dark ages, transforming from butchery into a science.
Presenter Michael Mosley finds out how the early days of surgery were dark and barbaric, when the surgeon's knife was more likely to kill you than save you, and invasive medicine generally meant being bloodlet by leeches to within an inch of your life

Blood And Guts A History Of Surgery - Season 1 - Bloody Beginnings (Episode 5)
Episode Aired On:
Wednesday, September 17 2008
16 years ago
Wednesday, September 17 2008
16 years ago
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