Word: astley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...succession of widely publicized hassles with medical authorities. It offered the first report (1847) of the use of anesthetics, the first discussion (1867) of Joseph Lister's treatment of wounds with antiseptics. It boldly reported on a bungled lithotomy by Bransby Cooper, nephew of famed Surgeon Sir Astley Cooper. Young Cooper had made an incision in the wrong place, tried to force an opening into the bladder with forceps, finally turned to his unanesthetized patient a few minutes before he died and complained petulantly that he could not imagine how he had failed. The Lancet was fined a token...