The Surgeon's Unthinkable Cut
In 1846, a young mother named Alice Bennett lay dying of gangrene in a London hospital. Dr. Robert Liston told her he would save her...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Habakkuk 1:5.
In 1846, a young mother named Alice Bennett lay dying of gangrene in a London hospital. Dr. Robert Liston told her he would save her life — by removing her leg. Alice wept. Her husband raged. How could destruction possibly be the path to healing? The surgery seemed like butchery, not medicine. But Liston knew something the Bennetts could not yet see.…
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