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In the late 19th century, an inexperienced doctor performed his first surgery n a room full of people. Feeling the pressure, he felt the need to perform the amputation in the quickest time possible, and ended up amputating his patient’s arm in the space of around 25 seconds. In the process of this, he accidentally amputated his assistant’s fingers too. Both patient and assistant died of sepsis, and a spectator died from shock, making it the only operation ever with a 300% mortality rate.
how badly…can one person fuck up….
THIS IS MY BOY!! THIS IS MY BOY ROBERT LISTON!! LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HIM!!
For starters, he practiced in a time before anesthesia was invented, when performing surgeries and amputations quickly were key to reducing a patients’ pain and upping their chance of survival. He was known as the ‘fastest knife on West End’ and could allegedly take a leg off in 2 ½ minutes. Some say he could amputate a limb in 30 seconds flat if he had to, he was exactly the man you wanted to call in case of emergency like this, because he could get you done and stitched nice and fast, before you bled out or died from shock.
On top of that, he was a theater surgeon, and I mean, he brought the THEATER to it. This man would scream for the students watching him to time him, and when he had to free his hands, shove his BLOODY FUCKING KNIFE between his teeth. Also, the 300% mortality rate wasn’t because he was inexperienced- it was because he was WAY TOO ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT CUTTING ARMS OFF, swinging his knife around for the effect. This was not the only time his enthusiasm got the better of him on the table, once, he amputated a man’s leg and accidentally took off his testicles in the same go.
He was, however, the first man to perform surgery with the use of anesthesia, and was a strong proponent of its use. He’s also famous for having UNSHAKABLE morals, he once got punched out a surgeon IN FRONT OF HIS WHOLE CLASS for displaying a woman’s corpse in a ‘voyeuristic’ manner, then straight-up took the body and had her decently buried (The woman was a murder victim and the surgeon he punched may have been complicit in the whole thing as well.).
Liston is such a coolio figure in early medical history he fight he heal he knock people the fuck out.
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BY RICHARD BRUSCHIMARCH 11, 2015
1. Italians don’t “play dumb”… they “do the dead cat” (Fare la gatta morta).
2. Italians aren’t “wasted”… they are “drunk as a monkey” (Ubriaco come una scimmia).
3. Italians don’t “scold” somebody… they “shave against the growth” (Fare il contropelo).
4. Italians don’t “disrespect”… they “treat you with fishes in your face” (Trattare a pesci in faccia).
5. Italians don’t “have a bee in one’s bonnet”… they “have a fixed nail in one’s head” (Avere un chiodo fisso in testa).
6. Italians don’t “arouse somebody’s doubts”… they “put a flea in the ear” (Mettere la pulce nell’orecchio).
7. Italians don’t “do it with hands tied behind the back”… they “jump ditches the long way” (Saltare I fossi per il lungo).
8. Italians don’t say “it rains cats and dogs”… they say “it rains from washbasins” (Piovere a catinelle).
9. Italians don’t say “well cooked”… they say “cooked to the small point” (Cotto a puntino).
10. Italians don’t say “not the sharpest tool in the box”… they say “merry goose” (Oca giuliva).
11. Italians don’t “take things too far”… they “pull the rope” (Tirare la corda).
12. Italians aren’t “fidgety”… they “have live silver on themselves”(Avere argento vivo addosso).
13. Italians aren’t “dumbfounded”… they “remain as stucco” (Rimanerci di stucco).
14. Italians don’t “keep their mouth shut”… they have “water in the mouth” (Acqua in bocca).
15. Italians don’t “go to bed early”… they “go to bed with the chickens” (Andare a letto con le galline).
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16. Italians don’t “sleep like a log”… they “sleep like a dormouse” (Dormire come un ghiro).
17. Italians are not “out of their mind”… they are “outside as a balcony” (Fuori come un balcone).
18. Italians don’t “bite the hand that feeds them”… they “spit in the plate they eat from” (Sputare nel piatto dove si mangia).
19. Italians don’t say “it’s the last straw”… they say “the drop that made the vase overflow” (La goccia che ha fatto traboccare il vaso).
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Clint: What if they catch us?
Natasha: I have a plan for that.
Clint: Which is?
Natasha: You run one way, I run the other. Whoever they catch first, too bad.
Clint: … I hate that plan.
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