10 Bloody Histories Behind Common Surgeries

Today, more than 48 million surgeries are performed in the United States alone. Surgery has become so commonplace that you may not even be able to bat your eyelids when your friends tell you they will be put under the knife.

After all, his 28 million of these surgeries in the United States are outpatient surgeries (commonly called ambulatory surgeries), and patients don't even spend the night in the hospital afterwards. This concept has become so common that how some of the procedures we now think of on a daily basis were actually life-changing, wonderful, or dangerous when they were first developed. It is easy to forget

These are the fascinating origins of ten such operations.