Picks and Pans Review: Ephraim Mcdowell's Kentucky Ride

UPDATED 01/19/1981 at 01:00 AM EST Originally published 01/19/1981 at 01:00 AM EST

PBS (check local listings)

This is a vivid dramatization of the world's first successful abdominal operation, performed by Dr. McDowell on a Kentucky frontierswoman in 1809.

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