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The First Cut: A Boy, a Pin, and a Bold Surgeon

London, December 6, 1735. A bitter wind howled through the streets outside St. George’s Hospital, a grand new building near Hyde Park Corner that had only opened its doors two years earlier. Inside the children’s ward, the air was thick with the cries of the sick and the sharp tang of fear. Eleven-year-old Hanvil Anderson […]