“I do not wonder that a patient sometimes
dies, but that the surgeon ever lives."
Edward Everett
nextEdward Everett was a professor of Greek literature at Harvard University. He was its President from 1846 to 1849. Everett was reckoned the most accomplished orator of his age; but it is impossible for mere word-spinning to evoke the horror of surgery in the pre-anaesthetic era of medicine.
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