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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the mornings.

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Speaker 2: Usually on this day, information ripped straight from the newspaper

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Speaker 2: is the domain of lazy Radio. But you haven't ripped

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Speaker 2: this from the newspaper.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I found it on Instagram. It's really interesting, Okay.

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Speaker 1: On this day in eighteen forty three, a famous surgeon,

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Speaker 1: Robert Liston, made history. He was Scottish. He amputated a

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Speaker 1: patient's leg in under two point five minutes.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's pretty good even by those standards.

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Speaker 1: Operating so quickly that in the process he also amputated

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Speaker 1: the fingers of his assistant and slashed the coattails of

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Speaker 1: a spectator, who dropped dead from sheer terror. Both the

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Speaker 1: patient and his assistant later died from gangreen, making it

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Speaker 1: the only recorded operation with a three hundred percent mortality rate.

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Speaker 1: Only operated on one person and three of them died.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to hear other things about him? He?

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Speaker 1: Where are we? He amputated? This is enough the time

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Speaker 1: he amputated a league in two and a half minutes,

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Speaker 1: But in his enthusiasm he chopped off the patient's testicles

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: He would have got the sack for that, surely.

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Speaker 1: Brendan interesting isn't it he Apparently he was the first.

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Speaker 1: He was the first to use modern a niece anithsia

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Speaker 1: in Europe it's nights girl's name. He invented bulldog forceps

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Speaker 1: to lock arteries that they use that to this day.

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Speaker 1: And le splints as well. Does not let him cut

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Speaker 1: off your nether region. We salute you, Robert Liston.

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Speaker 2: Robert Linston, So that wasn't lazy at all.

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Speaker 1: And Amanda in the morning