History of ENT archive for November 2023

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Guillotines from Joseph‑Ignace Guillotin to Greenfield Sluder

3 November 2023 | | ENT

Joseph‑Ignace Guillotin. The politician and physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814) was so disgusted by brutal head and shoulder injuries sustained in ‘failed attempts’ by drunken axe-wielding executioners during the French Revolution that he and surgeon Antoine Louis (1723-1792) advocated not only...