115 Episodes

  1. Episode 114 - "Troubled Masterpiece": The Controversial Pernkopf Atlas

    Published: 3/16/2025
  2. Episode 113 - Better know an instrument: Potts Scissors

    Published: 2/26/2024
  3. Episode 112 - The Ongoing History of Surgery: The World's First Whole Eye Transplant

    Published: 12/12/2023
  4. Episode 111 - The Code of Hammurabi

    Published: 11/15/2023
  5. Episode 110 - The Loch Ness Monster and The Surgeon's Photo

    Published: 2/3/2023
  6. Episode 109 - Was Jack the Ripper a surgeon?

    Published: 12/30/2022
  7. Episode 108 - The Michelangelo of Medicine: Frank Netter and the Atlas of Human Anatomy

    Published: 10/11/2022
  8. Episode 107 - "The Secret"

    Published: 8/1/2022
  9. Episode 106 - From toxin to cure: The story of Botox

    Published: 6/22/2022
  10. Episode 105 - Better know an instrument: the Yankauer suction tip

    Published: 5/4/2022
  11. Episode 104 - Lamb's Blood, Monkey 'Glands', Pig Kidneys, and More: A Brief History of Xenotransplantation

    Published: 1/10/2022
  12. Episode 103 - The Story of the Spleen

    Published: 11/5/2021
  13. Bonus Episode - The Curious Case of Scarpa's Head

    Published: 8/6/2021
  14. Episode 102 - Hua T'o and Surgery in Ancient China

    Published: 6/17/2021
  15. Episode 101 - Galen, Part 2: His Works

    Published: 5/21/2021
  16. Episode 100 - Galen, Part 1: The Story of his Life

    Published: 4/30/2021
  17. Episode 99 - The History of Transgender Reassignment Surgery

    Published: 2/7/2021
  18. Episode 98 - A Knot of Suture Tales

    Published: 1/12/2021
  19. Bonus Episode - The Bizarre History of Bezoars

    Published: 12/31/2020
  20. Episode 97 - The History of Blood Transfusions

    Published: 11/25/2020

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This podcast takes an entertaining and informative approach to telling the stories of the people and events that make up the history of modern surgery.