Fanny Burney and the Seven Men in Black
Diane Morris | Thursday, October 6th, 2016 | Surgery | 2 Comments
Last Friday, September 30, 2016, was the 205th anniversary of Fanny Burney’s mastectomy—without anesthesia. Here’s her story. “Yet—when the dreadful steel was plunged into the breast—cutting through veins—arteries—flesh—nerves—I needed no injunctions not to restrain my cries. I began a scream that lasted unintermittingly during the whole time of the incision …”1 Writing from Paris to […]
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