Medical Pioneers

Learn about the incredible, yet horrifying tale of Leonid Rogozov, the surgeon who was forced to remove his own appendix

In 1918, a deadly virus swept across the globe, infecting one-third of the world’s population and killing tens of millions

In 1854, a young woman entered the blood-soaked, disease-ridden chaos of a Crimean War field hospital. She didn’t wield a

In the early 20th century, a simple sore throat could be a death sentence. While doctors knew what bacteria were,

In the 1800s, rampant infections made giving birth in a hospital more dangerous than a battlefield. Yet, a simple practice

In the 1800s, surgery was a brutal race against death, but few surgeons were as skilled—or as infamous—as Robert Liston.