Surgeon's Vault: Deconstructing the Past Through a Modern Medical Lens

What if everything you thought you knew about the history of medicine was only half the story?The Surgeon's Vault is not a celebration of medical progress. It is a forensic examination of it. For centuries, physicians prescribed mercury as a cure, performed surgery on fully conscious patients, and attributed epidemic diseases to bad air. They were not ignorant. They were working with the best avai...