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Legends of Surgery is a podcast that tells the stories of the people and events that make up the history of modern surgery, told in an informal, entertaining and educational manner.
In this episode, we will cover Gavriil Ilizarov, the Soviet surgeon who created what is now known as the Ilizarov Apparatus, which is used t...
In this episode, we will talk about the Fowler position in surgery, its current and historical uses, the person behind the name, and the leg...
In this episode, we'll explore the history of the Pernkopf Atlas, an anatomy text used by surgeons and pathologists worldwide, as well as th...
In this episode, we'll meet the person behind the eponymously named scissors, the American pediatric surgeon Willis J. Potts. We'll cover hi...
In this episode, we will cover the recent story of (possibly) the world's first whole eye transplant that occured in May of 2023, as well as...
In this episode, we will explore the history of a nearly 4 millenia old slab of rock which has inscribed on it some of the oldest recorded l...
In this episode, we will explore the legend of the Loch Ness Monster, as well as the surgeon behind a famous photograph of the beast, Robert...
In this episode, we will explore the question of the identity of the 19th century serial killer based in the London neighborhood of Whitecha...
In this episode, we will explore the famous 20th century medical illustrator Frank Netter and his magnum opus, the Atlas of Human Anatomy. W...
In this episode, we will meet the Chamberlen family, French Huguenots and barber surgeons/male midwives that practiced in England in the 16t...
Initially recognized as a poison in blood sausage by a German country doctor in the 19th century CE, botulinum toxin was isolated and purifi...
In this episode, we will cover Dr. Sidney Yankauer, a leader in the development of ENT as a surgical specialty, including the creation of hi...
In this episode, we will trace the history of attempts at transplanting cells, tissues, and organs from animals into humans. From world-famo...
In this episode, we return to a previous series, looking at the history of different organs in the body. The history of our understanding of...
In this bonus suture tale episode, we cover the life and works of the famous Italian surgeon and anatomist Antonio Scarpa. While many are fa...
In this episode, we cover the legendary figure of Hua T'o, the best known (and one of the few) surgeons from Ancient China, as well as the s...
In this episode, we'll take a look at some of the contributions he made in surgery and anatomy, as well as some of the errors of his that we...
In the 100th episode of Legends of Surgery, we will explore the life of one of medicine and surgery's greatest influences: the Greek physici...
In this episode, we'll cover the history of transgender medicine, with a focus on the development of the main surgical procedures in gender...
In this episode, we're going to do something a bit different. I've taken a number of shorter but very interesting topics, either that I've c...
In this bonus episode, we cover the long and strange history of the bezoar, a stone that forms in the stomachs of some animals (including hu...
In this episode, we explore the origins of our understanding of blood and its function, going all the way back to ancient Greece and Rome. W...
This episode was written by a guest contributor, Harvard student Simar Bajaj. In it, we cover some of the anatomy and function of the esopha...
In this episode, we will cover the story of providing fluids and nutrients intravenously, leading up to Dr. Stanley Dudrick and the developm...
The subject for this episode, written and narrated by Dr. David Sigmon, is the great medieval surgeon Guy de Chauliac. His life and works ar...
This episode was written by a guest contributor, Simar Bajaj, a student of the History of Science at Harvard University. In it, we cover the...
This episode was written by a guest contributor, Dr. David Warmflash, and covers the history of the use of induced hypothermia in surgery, f...
In this episode, we'll cover the brilliant but difficult character of Guillaume Dupuytren, and of course the disease which bears his name. I...
In this episode, host Dr. David Sigmon tells the inspirational true story of Dr. Alexander Thomas Augusta, the first African American surgeo...
In this episode, we cover the contributions to neurosurgery by Dr. Walter Dandy, including an in depth look at the ventricular system of the...
In this episode, we will trace the history of the parathyroid gland, from its identification, to the determination of its function, the unde...
In this 2nd part of a 2-part series on the world-famous cardiac surgeons Drs. DeBakey and Cooley, we cover their life's work, their feud, an...
In this episode, Dr. David Sigmon tells us the tale of the Russian surgeon Dr. Pirogov, detailing his early life, including family tragedies...
In this episode, we cover the early lives and career beginnings of the famous cardiovascular surgeons Drs. Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley...
This is another episode provided by Dr. David Sigmon! He covers the history of a surgeon who had a successful, but not necessarily legendary...
In this episode, new host and collaborator for the show, Dr. David Sigmon, tells the horrifying tale of the Japanese surgeon Dr. Shiro Ishii...
Despite the title, this episode is about far more than just the first prostatectomy performed for cancer treatment. The life of American uro...
In this bonus episode, we welcome a new member to the Legends of Surgery team, Dr. David Simon, a general surgery resident at the University...
In this episode, we cover one of the most influential books in the history of surgery, the 'De Humane Corporis Fabrica', and its author, And...
In this episode, we will explore the life and impact of French surgeon Ambroise Pare, who has been described as "one of the most luminous fi...
There are few surgical interventions more dramatic than the thoracotomy - a desperate last-ditch effort to save a failing heart by manual co...
This episode is a bit different than previous, in that the first part is a review of the life and work of the famous cardiac surgeon Christi...
In this episode, we'll cover the life of English surgeon Frederick Salmon, his clashes with the medical establishment at the time, and his c...
In this episode, we will cover the German surgeon August Bier, and his creation of both spinal anesthesia, and the eponymously named Bier bl...
In this episode, we'll cover the life of the 18th century English surgeon, Percivall Pott. This includes some of the numerous disorders name...
In this episode, we explore the history of Robert Liston, considered "the fastest knife in the west end" of London, in an era before anesthe...
In this episode, we'll cover the strange and sometimes disturbing history of psychosurgery, and in particular, the frontal lobotomy. We'll m...
In this episode, we will follow the history of the treatment of clubfoot, from antiquity, through the Renaissance and into modern surgery. I...
In this episode, we will take a look at some of the unsung heroes of the operating room, going back to some of the earliest surgeries. We'll...
In this episode, we will follow the history of the repair of inguinal hernias from ancient times, through the age of dissection, to the Rena...