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Before chloroform surgery was unimaginably painful. Professor Christopher Lawrence, from Imperial College London, describes what surgery was like before the 19th Century.
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Available for over a year
Before chloroform surgery was unimaginably painful. Professor Christopher Lawrence, from Imperial College London, describes what surgery was like before the 19th Century.
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