Episode details
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.
Programme WebsiteUse BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.
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.
Programme Website