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Introduction – Healing by Hand: Chirurgeons and Surgeons 1. Lithotomy – The Stone of Jan de Doot, Smith of Amsterdam 2. Asphyxia – The Tracheotomy of the Century: President Kennedy 3. Wound Healing – The Royal Prepuce: Abraham and King Louis XVI 4. Shock – The Lady and the Anarchist: Empress Sisi 5. Obesity – Popes: From Peter to Francis 6. Stoma – The Miracle Bullet: Karol Wojtyla 7. Fracture – Dr Democedes and the Greek Method: King Darius 8. Varicose Veins – Lucy and Modern-Day Surgery: Australopithecus afarensis 9. Peritonitis – The Death of an Escape Artist: Harry Houdini 10. Narcosis – L’anaethesie a la reine: Queen Victoria 11. Gangrene – The Battle of Little Bay: Peter Stuyvesant 12. Diagnosis – Doctors and Surgeons: Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes 13. Complications – The Maestro and the Shah: Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 14. Dissemination – Two Musicians and Their Big Toes: Lully and Bob Marley 15. Abdomen – The Romans and Abdominoplasty: Lucius Apronius Caesianus 16. Aneurysm – The Relativity Surgery: Albert Einstein 17. Laparoscopy – Endoscopy and the Minimal Invasive Revolution 18. Castration – The History of a Very Small Operation: Adam, Eve and Farinelli 19. Lung Cancer – Thracotomy at Home: King George VI 20. Placebo – The Fifth Man on the Moon: Alan Shepard 21. Umbilical Hernia – The Miserable Death of a Stout Lady: Queen Caroline 22. Short Stay, Fast Track – Rebels and Revolutions: Bassini and Lichtenstein 23. Mors in tabula – The Limits of Surgery: Lee Harvey Oswald 24. Prosthesis – Une belle epaule de la belle epoque: The Baker Jules Paradox 25. Stroke – The Neck of Vladimir Ilyich Uljanov: Lenin 26. Gastrectomy – Cowboys and Surgeons: Frau Therese Heller 27. Anal Fistula – La Grande Operation: King Louis XIV 28. Electricity – 600 Volts: The Electric Eel at Artis Zoo Epilogue – The Surgeon of the Future: A Top 10
