Not my usual thing but I enjoyed it. I could not be a surgeon.

This was so interesting! I was never bored while listening to this audiobook and found the writing both complex enough to be educating and engaging enough to be hooked throughout. Historical background information that always felt purposeful and plenty of cool and intriguing asides, were everywhere in this book and I highly enjoyed it! A great read for anyone interested in human anatomy, history, medicine, or just cool stories about fascinating people.

A quick and entertaining read, although barely scratching the surface of surgery's history. It is highly interesting to see how much surgery was done in times before anaesthetics - and how often surgery failed due to terrible hygienic conditions. If you want a quick overview over the history of surgery and the most performed operations, this works fine. For more in-depth, you'll want to find something else after reading this, as I'll do now.

This was a really interesting compilation of historical surgeries and surgical procedures.

I listened to the audiobook and snort-laughed when the serious English-accented narrator read "Chapter 27: Anal Fistula." [On a related note: Be gentle with your anus, folks.]

I really enjoyed the format of the book.

Yikes. This is a good book, but made be queasy more than a few times. Glad I live now, and not before anaesthesia.