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Legends of Surgery — 100 episodes

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Episode 116 - The Ilizarov Apparatus

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Episode 115 - Sit up and take notice: The Fowler Position

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Episode 114 - "Troubled Masterpiece": The Controversial Pernkopf Atlas

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Episode 113 - Better know an instrument: Potts Scissors

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Episode 112 - The Ongoing History of Surgery: The World's First Whole Eye Transplant

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Episode 111 - The Code of Hammurabi

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Episode 110 - The Loch Ness Monster and The Surgeon's Photo

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Episode 109 - Was Jack the Ripper a surgeon?

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Episode 108 - The Michelangelo of Medicine: Frank Netter and the Atlas of Human Anatomy

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Episode 107 - "The Secret"

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Episode 106 - From toxin to cure: The story of Botox

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Episode 105 - Better know an instrument: the Yankauer suction tip

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Episode 104 - Lamb's Blood, Monkey 'Glands', Pig Kidneys, and More: A Brief History of Xenotransplantation

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Episode 103 - The Story of the Spleen

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Bonus Episode - The Curious Case of Scarpa's Head

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Episode 102 - Hua T'o and Surgery in Ancient China

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Episode 101 - Galen, Part 2: His Works

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Episode 100 - Galen, Part 1: The Story of his Life

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Episode 99 - The History of Transgender Reassignment Surgery

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Episode 98 - A Knot of Suture Tales

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Bonus Episode - The Bizarre History of Bezoars

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Episode 97 - The History of Blood Transfusions

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Episode 96 - The History of the Esophagectomy

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Episode 95 - Non Per Os: The Tale of TPN

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Episode 94 - Guy de Chauliac and the Black Death

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Episode 93 - The Story of the Mitral Valve

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Episode 92 - A Cool Tale about Induced Hypothermia

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Episode 91 - Guillaume Dupuytren: The Brigand of the Hotel Dieu

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Episode 90 - Alexander Thomas Augusta, a story of courage

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Episode 89 - Neurosurgeon Dr. Walter Dandy

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Episode 88 - The History of the Parathyroid Gland

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Episode 87 - Drs. DeBakey and Cooley, Part 2: Feud and Reconciliation

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Episode 86 - Dr. Nikolay Pirogov - Founder of Field Surgery

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Episode 85 - Drs. DeBakey and Cooley, Part 1: Origin stories

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Episode 84 - The Secret Identity of Dr. James Barry

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Episode 83 - Halloween Edition: Shiro Ishii and the infamous Unit 731

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Episode 82 - Hugh Hampton Young and the Radical Prostatectomy

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Bonus Episode 4 - A History of the Adrenal Glands

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Episode 81 - Vesalius and the Birth of Modern Anatomy

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Episode 80 - Ambroise Pare, Renaissance Surgeon

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Episode 79 - Cracking the Chest: The Brief History of Resuscitative Thoracotomy

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Episode 78 - Christiaan Barnard: The Surgeon Who Dared and Interview with Dr. David K. C. Cooper

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Episode 77 - Frederick Salmon and the Founding of the St. Mark's Fistula Hospital

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Episode 76 - the Bier Block

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Episode 75 - Percivall Pott and the Chimney Sweep's Cancer

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Episode 74 - "Time me, gentlemen": The Legend of Robert Liston

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Episode 73 - The History of the Lobotomy

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Episode 72 - The History of Clubfoot

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Episode 71 - The History of Surgical Technologists

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Episode 70 - The History of Inguinal Hernias

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Episode 69 - Sir Astley Cooper

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Episode 68 - The History of Surgery in Japan

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Episode 67 - The History of Lithotomy

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Episode 66 - R Adams Cowley: Father of Trauma Medicine

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Episode 65 - Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

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Episode 64 - Dr. Friedrich Trendelenburg

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Episode 63 - The Heart Lung Bypass Machine

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Episode 62 - Cochlear Implants

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Episode 61 - Lasers in Surgery

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Episode 60 - Better know an instrument: Metzenbaum scissors

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Episode 59 - The History of the Railway Surgeon

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Episode 58 - The Story of the Appendix

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Episode 57 - the history of Microsurgery

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Episode 56 - William Ladd:Father of Paediatric Surgery

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Episode 55 - Better know a procedure: the Whipple operation

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Episode 54 - Better know an instrument: the Surgical Stapler

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Episode 53 - Creepy Crawlers in Surgery: Halloween Edition

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Episode 52 - Sir Harold Ridley and the story of cataracts

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Bonus Episode 3 - Of Barbers and Surgeons

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Episode 51 - The Controversial figure of Dr. J. Marion Sims

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Episode 50 - John Hunter: Father of Scientific Surgery

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Episode 49 - Surgical Families: the Mayo Brothers

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Episode 48 - Better know a procedure: the Nissen Fundoplication

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Episode 47 - Dominique Jean Larrey, the first modern military surgeon

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Episode 46 - Sir Archibald McIndoe and the Guinea Pig Club

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Episode 45 - Dr. Al-Zahrawi and surgery in the Islamic Medieval World

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Episode 44 - Dr. George Washington Crile and the Cleveland Clinic

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Episode 43 - Dr. Harvey Cushing, Part 2: Making of a Legend

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Episode 42 - Dr. Harvey Cushing, Part 1: Origin Story

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Episode 41 - History of Rhinoplasty

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Episode 40 - Better know a procedure: the Roux-en-Y

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Episode 39 - Dr. Theodor Billroth: Father of Abdominal Surgery

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Episode 38 - International Women's Day Edition

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Episode 37 - Black History Month Edition

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Episode 36 - Groundhog Day Edition

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Episode 35 - Dr. William Halsted: Father of American Modern Surgery

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Episode 34 - Space: The Final Surgical Frontier?

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Episode 33 - Transposition of the Great Vessels

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Episode 32 - Blalock and the Blue Babies

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Episode 31 - Operating on the President: Election Day Edition, Part 2

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Episode 30 - Operating on the President: Election Day Edition, Part 1

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Episode 29 - Halloween Edition

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Episode 28 - Nobel Prize Edition

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Episode 27 - Better know a procedure: the Graham patch

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Episode 26 - Better know an instrument: the Foley catheter

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Bonus Episode 2 - The Patron Saints of Surgeons

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Episode 25 - Dr. Lucille Teasdale: Unsung Hero

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Episode 24 - The History of Laparoscopy, Part 3: The Age of Robots

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Episode 23 - The History of Laparoscopy, Part 2: The Modern Era

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Episode 22 - The History of Laparoscopy, Part 1: Origins