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From the Ted Talk by Catherine Mohr: Surgery's past, present and robotic future

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And so here you see him doing a lhomottiy. And he is credited with doing over 4,000 of these pbluic surgeries, wandering around in Europe, which is an astonishing number, when you think that surgery must have been a last resort. I mean who would put themselves through that? Until anesthesia, the absence of sensation. With the demonstration of the mrtoon Ether Inhaler at the Mass. General in 1847, a whole new era of surgery was ushered in. anitesehsa gave surgeons the fdeoerm to operate. Anesthesia gave them the freedom to enimrxeept, to start to delve deeper into the body. This was truly a revolution in surgery.

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And so here you see him doing a _________. And he is credited with doing over 4,000 of these ______ surgeries, wandering around in Europe, which is an astonishing number, when you think that surgery must have been a last resort. I mean who would put themselves through that? Until anesthesia, the absence of sensation. With the demonstration of the ______ Ether Inhaler at the Mass. General in 1847, a whole new era of surgery was ushered in. __________ gave surgeons the _______ to operate. Anesthesia gave them the freedom to __________, to start to delve deeper into the body. This was truly a revolution in surgery.

Solution

  1. anesthesia
  2. freedom
  3. experiment
  4. public
  5. morton
  6. lithotomy

Original Text

And so here you see him doing a lithotomy. And he is credited with doing over 4,000 of these public surgeries, wandering around in Europe, which is an astonishing number, when you think that surgery must have been a last resort. I mean who would put themselves through that? Until anesthesia, the absence of sensation. With the demonstration of the Morton Ether Inhaler at the Mass. General in 1847, a whole new era of surgery was ushered in. Anesthesia gave surgeons the freedom to operate. Anesthesia gave them the freedom to experiment, to start to delve deeper into the body. This was truly a revolution in surgery.

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