Great success

Robert Liston, "Hey, shit happens!"

If this is true, it's a great story.

25 seconds. Wow

Yay, that's what I call success! Btw. sepsis takes a while to kill and until then you can still do magic.

Back then surgery was all about speed. You didn't have anesthesia so you had to operate an awake patient who was just strapped down.

As far as I remember, it was 20s that were tragic, not 1s

See this shite that you added on top? The post was much better without it. You did not add value, you made it shitty.

I cant quite put my finger on why, but i have a feeling he might have been a 9gagger.

Wikipedia lists this scenario of actually happening "probably apocryphal", meaning most definitely made up.

What did the spectator who died of shock expect to see in an amputation demonstration?