Did you know that President James A. Garfield was shot in an assassination attempt in 1881, but he died because germs weren’t understood and doctors with unwashed hands removed the bullet? Or did you know that there was a clandestine medical school in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust? Decoy books were even made so the Nazis wouldn’t discover that the Jewish students were studying forbidden subjects. Those are two of the many topics covered in le ctures by local surgeon Dr. Leo A. Gordon as an