By Black PR Wire (Black PR Wire) – In July 1893, James Cornish was admitted to Chicago’s Provident Hospital with a knife wound to his chest, stemming from a barroom brawl. He needed surgery, but medical professionals at the time believed operating on the heart was too dangerous. That was about to change. Without antibiotics, […]

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