Oct 28, 2018
Dr. Thackery contemplates
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Dr. Thackery contemplates
SPOILER ALERT: Clive Owen talks about Season 2 of The Knick.
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“In 1921 American surgeon Evan O'Neill Kane performed self-surgery, using cocaine and adrenalin to numb his abdominal wall, and then proceeding to remove his appendix. The entire procedure took 30 minutes. Kane made a full and swift recovery, taking only 14 days before he returned to active duty as chief of surgery. He later explained that he had performed the self-experiment both to know how a patient feels when being operated upon and to understand how to use local anesthesia to its best advantage.”
Here we see Dr. Kane in 1932, at the age of 70, successfully repairing his own inguinal hernia.
We wish Dr. Gallinger the best on his tour of Europe... Here is a colleague. This European eugenicist studied “Hand Type[s] of Lunacy.”
The hidden dangers of x-rays were unknown to early operators, resulting in maiming and early deaths.
Alas, poor Barrow.
Here we see workers harvesting the sap of pine trees for distillation to make turpentine. While turpentine had been used medicinally throughout history, we strongly advise against drinking the stuff.
“Algernon’s retina has detached and he has lost vision. Photo of traumatic detached retina. “
McKinley’s funeral procession September 1901, after the assassination.
He was still alive (and President) when Henry mentions him in The Knick Season Finale, “This Is All We Are.”