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Robert Liston (28 October 1794 – 7 December 1847) was a British surgeon. Liston was noted for his speed and skill in an era prior to anesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival. In the most famous amputation in history, he amputated the leg of a patient in under 2 and half minutes (the patient died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene; they usually did in those pre-Listerian days). He was so fast (and arguably careless) that he also amputated the fingers of his young assistant (who died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene). At the same time time, he slashed through the coat tails of a distinguished surgical spectator, who was so terrified that the knife had pierced his vitals he fainted from fright (and was later discovered to have died from shock). This episode has since been dubbed as the only known surgery in history with a 300 percent mortality rate.
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