Legends of Surgery
A podcast by Tyler Rouse
115 Episodes
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Episode 114 - "Troubled Masterpiece": The Controversial Pernkopf Atlas
Published: 3/16/2025 -
Episode 113 - Better know an instrument: Potts Scissors
Published: 2/26/2024 -
Episode 112 - The Ongoing History of Surgery: The World's First Whole Eye Transplant
Published: 12/12/2023 -
Episode 111 - The Code of Hammurabi
Published: 11/15/2023 -
Episode 110 - The Loch Ness Monster and The Surgeon's Photo
Published: 2/3/2023 -
Episode 109 - Was Jack the Ripper a surgeon?
Published: 12/30/2022 -
Episode 108 - The Michelangelo of Medicine: Frank Netter and the Atlas of Human Anatomy
Published: 10/11/2022 -
Episode 107 - "The Secret"
Published: 8/1/2022 -
Episode 106 - From toxin to cure: The story of Botox
Published: 6/22/2022 -
Episode 105 - Better know an instrument: the Yankauer suction tip
Published: 5/4/2022 -
Episode 104 - Lamb's Blood, Monkey 'Glands', Pig Kidneys, and More: A Brief History of Xenotransplantation
Published: 1/10/2022 -
Episode 103 - The Story of the Spleen
Published: 11/5/2021 -
Bonus Episode - The Curious Case of Scarpa's Head
Published: 8/6/2021 -
Episode 102 - Hua T'o and Surgery in Ancient China
Published: 6/17/2021 -
Episode 101 - Galen, Part 2: His Works
Published: 5/21/2021 -
Episode 100 - Galen, Part 1: The Story of his Life
Published: 4/30/2021 -
Episode 99 - The History of Transgender Reassignment Surgery
Published: 2/7/2021 -
Episode 98 - A Knot of Suture Tales
Published: 1/12/2021 -
Bonus Episode - The Bizarre History of Bezoars
Published: 12/31/2020 -
Episode 97 - The History of Blood Transfusions
Published: 11/25/2020
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.