In Photos: Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

See more from Michael Mosley's history of surgery; Blood and Guts.

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Lobotomies

Presenter Michael Mosley demonstrating how lobotomies were done.
Phineas Gage

Presenter Michael Mosley with prop skull and spike representing Phineas Gage, the famous brain injury survivor.
Spike

Presenter Michael Mosley with a spike like the one that injured Phineas Gage.
Blood Vessels

Presenter Michael Mosley with plasticised man showing blood vessels (at BodyWorlds exhibition, Manchester).
Sophie Clarke

Patient Sophie Clarke pre Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest operation.
Heart Lung Machine

Presenter Michael Mosley with Sophie's blood in heart lung machine.
Olivier Grosset

Presenter Michael Mosley (left) with artificial heart patient Olivier Grosset, La Pitie Hospital, Paris.
Pig's Heart

Presenter Michael Mosley holding a pig's heart.
WW1 Soldiers

Michael Mosley views the hundreds of disfigured faces of WW1 soldiers.
Leeches

Presenter Michael Mosley with a leech - for many thousands of years using leeches was one of the most popular forms of "surgery" around.

Lobotomies