Horror stories from the history of surgery
Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net

Some­times, it’s a lit­tle mind blow­ing when you remem­ber just how recent­ly med­i­cine passed from the world of art/magic/tradition and into the realm of sci­ence. There’s plen­ty of rea­son to argue that the trans­for­ma­tion still isn’t…