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Brain surgery saved Russian general who helped defeat Napoleon

For more than two centuries, history has focused on Kutuzov’s incredible story, researchers said. Napoleon Bonaparte likely would have conquered Russia in 1812 if not for a life-saving brain surgery performed on Russian general Mikhail Kutuzov by a French surgeon, scientists have found. “It’s a story of how medicine changed the course of civilisation,” said Mark C. Preul, chair of neurosurgery research director at Barrow Neurological Institute, which is part […]