How Ignaz Semmelweis Saved Millions of Mothers, and Changed Medicine Forever In the 1800s, rampant infections made giving birth in a hospital more dangerous than a battlefield. Yet, a simple practice
How Robert Liston Killed 3 People in 1 Surgery In the 1800s, surgery was a brutal race against death, but few surgeons were as skilled—or as infamous—as Robert Liston.