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Bloody Beginnings

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.

English
  • Originally Aired September 17, 2008
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Network BBC Four
  • On Other Sites IMDB
  • Notes Is the series finale
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