10 Gruesome And Shocking Facts About Victorian Surgery

(via Listverse) We really don’t realize how lucky we are until we take a look back at the medical history books and recognize that most surgical practices during the Victorian era (1837–1901) were basically medieval. The high mortality rate during this time is widely reported in newspapers, medical journals, and coroners’ inquests; even the healthiest of people wouldn’t make it out of surgery alive. These following gruesome and shocking facts are not for the fainthearted.