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Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Michael Mosley

Claudia Lewis

Emma Jay

Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery: Episode 5: Bloody Beginnings

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Bloody Beginnings

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Episode 5: Bloody Beginnings

BBC Four - Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery, Bloody Beginnings

How surgery was dragged out of the dark ages, transforming from butchery into a science.

Michael Mosley looks at how surgery dragged itself kicking and screaming out of the dark ages, transforming itself from butchery into a science.

Documentary series about the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery looks at how surgery dragged itself kicking and screaming out of the dark ages, transforming itself from butchery into a science.

Presenter Michael Mosley finds out how the early days of surgery were dark and barbaric, when the surgeon's knife was more likely to kill you than save you, and invasive medicine generally meant being bloodlet by leeches to within an inch of your life.

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Documentary series looking at the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery.

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