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“In the mid-1800s, gynecologists experimented with the surgical removal of the clitoris (known as a clitoridectomy) or the ovaries (an oophorectomy) to treat hysteria. Isaac Baker Brown was a well-known gynecologist in England and the president of the Medical Society of London. He recommended clitoridectomy as a treatment for insanity, epilepsy,
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SHE MD Podcast - About the Hosts
shemdpodcast.com
The curious case of Mary Toft
gla.ac.uk
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
amazon.com
Challenging established norms and textbook knowledge, illustrated by a surgeon who broke the rules to achieve a breakthrough.
TRANSCRIPT
I have a friend who's a brilliant brain surgeon, maybe one of the best in the world.
And he told me the story of doing a brain surgery where there was a big tumor in a part in the brain.
It was a very particularly dangerous operation because the tumor was right next to the part of the brain that allows a person to speak.
and if the if the surgery
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