The Impact of Surgery on History through the Ages

TALK: The talk will outline the history of surgery and how operations have altered history itself.  It will start with Stone Age surgery, includes the development of anaesthesia and goes on to the treatment of bladder stones that plagued the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries across Europe, then to Lord Nelson and to a selection of more recent, royal illnesses and operations.

SPEAKER: Dick Glass has been a Consultant Surgeon, who trained in London, the USA and Birmingham. He was appointed to Swindon and Marlborough Health Care Trust in 1987.