Most people would go to a surgeon for an operation, but not everyone. Take a look at some of history’s auto-surgical pioneers, from the Founding Father who stuck whalebone where he shouldn’t have to the only known woman to have given herself a C-section.
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0:00 Intro
1:10 Leonid Rogozov
2:02 Robert Kerr McLaren
2:19 Gouverneur Morris
3:14 Inés Ramírez Pérez
4:07 Peter Freuchen
5:25 Evan O’Neill Kane
6:08 M. Alexandre Fzaicou
6:42 Amanda Feilding
7:35 Charles-Auguste Clever de Maldigny
8:40 Werner Theodor Otto Forssmann