Abstract
This year marks the 110th anniversary of the first successful operation on the heart. Over the centuries, from the time of Galen, wounds of the heart were considered fatal. With the advent of anaesthesia and of antiseptic surgery, the latter part of the 19th century saw an explosion in the surgery of the abdominal cavity, of the chest, skull and the limbs, yet the heart was considered to be a ‘no go’ region of the body.
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