Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow... Even though it was already made clear during the first two episodes that the best course of action for any human living in the year 1900 was to "not get sick ever," the novelty of the era's medicinal shortcomings are still providing entertainment. Whether it's a woman whose nose was eaten away by syphilis or a man whose doctors have to consult a French medical essay they can't even read in order to try and perform a ground-breaking heart procedure. Because in this trial-and-error "brave new world" of surgery, only a few things are standardized and most often its left to the surgeons themselves, like Dr.