Oh, another dark and terrible place for the thread to go:
Even up into the 50s, they were teaching surgery by shooting a goat in the leg or something, and them operating on it with lots of doctors watching. Dunno when that stopped, actually. Also, without going into details, gynecology in America started back when slavery was still around, so...yeah...
We'd not get stories about Burke and Hare. We also lose "The Body Snatchers", the 1945 film with Boris Karloff (not to be confused with the sci-fi films with the same name).