Checking into The Knick 1.05: “They Capture the Heat”
By Joe Brosnan
September 13, 2014If there’s one point that The Knick has driven home time after time, it’s that early 20th Century surgery was not easy. If the actual process of cutting you open didn’t kill you, the recovery process certainly could, as antibiotics weren’t around to prevent infection. A surgeon of these times was similar to a baseball…