Robert Liston, the surgeon with 300% mortality in an operation

It is very possible that the title has caught your attention...How is it possible that in an operation there was a 300% mortality ? Typically, in one intervention, there is only danger for only one person: the patient.

Well, if we were in the operating room of the illustrious Robert Liston , we would have the danger of losing our lives, nurses, assistants and anyone who had the bad luck to pass by.

The reason? We explain it to you below, we are sure that it will leave you breathless.

Robert Liston, the fastest scalpel in history

We will begin to calm you down.Robert Liston was a 19th century Scottish surgeon .His figure is therefore far behind, but if there is something that surprises us, it is that despite being well known today inside In the area of surgery, popular history usually names Liston as the most dangerous specialist in an operating room.

Robert Liston, the surgeon with 300% mortality in an operation

However, let's go to" parts ".We are at a time when patients are still they are not given anesthesia , they are times in which science is still experimenting with sedatives, relaxants and in the way of suspending the body in a suitable insensitivity so that any intervention does not cause suffering or pain to the person.

In Robert Liston's years, the important thing to avoid such trances to the patient, was to be fast, precise and exquisitely skilled. Our protagonist only had the first virtue.And in that, he was undoubtedly the best, hence they called him "the fastest knife in the West End" , the fastest knife in West End.

There are testimonials that he was able to amputate a leg in just over two minutes.That he performed interventions in a matter of seconds , facts that even Florence Nightingale recorded in her diaries, since Robert Liston was as well known as admired in that regard: in its speed.

Now...was it how quickly synonymous with effectiveness? Not at all.Despite knowing that at this time the index of mortality used to be high in itself because of subsequent infections, the operation could be carried out precisely without adding a greater risk to the subsequent recovery itself.

Robert Liston, the surgeon with 300% mortality in an operation

Would you like to know now some of the best known facts about Robert Liston's work history? We explain them to you, warning you that, they can sensitize more than one:

In a little more than 4 minutes I manage to eliminate a scotral tumor of 20 kg .In this case, the patient was optimally restored.However, another patient of his was not so lucky: when amputating his leg, a testicle was also taken ahead .

A child arrived in the operating room with a tumor of a very intense red in the neck.One of his colleagues warned him that it could be a carotid aneurysm, but for our protagonist, the The diagnosis could not be that because the patient was still very young. He took the scalpel and puncture .The child, unfortunately, died within a few minutes.Today, the artery is preserved in the pathological museum from the "University College Hospital".

Now we are going to the best known case.That fact was offered by the "the surgeon with a 300% mortality inan operation ». It was during another intervention in which another member of a sick person had to amputate.This task required considerable force and great speed so as not to cause more pain than necessary.

Maybe I don't control that force, because in the middle of that fleeting movement with his scalpel, I make the cut on the patient , I amputate the fingers of his assistant in the intervention and also cut to a third person who was at the operating table watching the intervention.

Robert Liston, the surgeon with 300% mortality in an operation

The patient died days after gangrene.Like his assistant.As for the viewer, he lost his life because of a infarction when experiencing that spermic and bloodthirsty vision.

We could say that fatality and the lack of antibiotics come together to treat postoperative...Now, the surgeon himself may also exceeded in his own safety.They were other times, there is no doubt, where medicine was still groping in the darkness of the lack of means, hygiene, and knowledge we have now.

Although … Who knows what they will think of us in the future when they remember our current techniques! If you liked this article, also know that it is the third state of consciousness.

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