Major (breast cancer) surgery without an anaesthetic: Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1811

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Major (breast cancer) surgery without an anaesthetic: Frances (Fanny)
Burney, 1811

The invention of modern anaesthesia has taken so much of the terror
out of surgery that an account such as that left by Fanny Burney (also
known by her married name of Madame d'Arblay) is difficult to take in.

Burney was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 1810, and operated
on in France by Baron Larrey, Napoleon's surgeon. To spare her the
suspense, she was given very little notice of the operation.

 “M. d'A.” in this account is her husband, Alexandre, and Alexander is
her son.

To read the letter:

Cancer Blog – Marc Lacroix – Le Blogue du Cancer
http://marclacroixcancerblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/major-breast-cancer-surgery-without.html

or

http://www.mytimemachine.co.uk/operation.htm

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