NOVA
Season 15 Episode 12 - Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft
7.0 ?
1974
Documentary
Part one of a four-part series on the pioneers of modern surgery relives the early days, when surgery was practiced without the benefit of anaesthesia or antisceptics and patients usually died.
Episodes in Season 15
1
Top Gun and Beyond
55 min
2
How to Create a Junk Food
55 min
3
Buried in Ice
55 min
4
Why Planes Burn
55 min
5
Battles in the War on Cancer: A Wonder Drug on Trial
55 min
6
Battles in the War on Cancer: Turning the Tide
55 min
7
The Mystery of the Master Builders
55 min
8
Whale Rescue
55 min
9
The Man Who Loved Numbers
55 min
10
Race for the Superconductor
55 min
11
Can You Still Get Polio?
55 min
12
Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft
55 min
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15
Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife
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16
Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel?
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17
Can the Next President Win the Space Race?
55 min
18
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55 min
19
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20
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21
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22
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