Documentary series looking at the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery.

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Bloody Beginnings

How surgery was dragged out of the dark ages, transforming from butchery into a science.

Sat 1 Aug 2009 22:15 BBC Two except Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales (Analogue)

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