The triumph of surgery

"Triumph of Surgery" begins with the use of local anesthesia, which made it possible to treat cases that had previously been inoperable - tumors of the brain and spinal cord, goiters, pulmonary tuberculosis, hernia, diseases of the eye and nerves. Through the pages of the story move the vivid figures of the Mayo brothers, of Charcot and Freud; Marion Sims, the American doctor of the Empress Eugenie, and others.