There are many medical reasons that can cause black stools that are tarry with a foul smell, but sometimes dark stools are caused by eating certain foods or taking iron supplements. However, black stools can also be a result of bleeding, and the darker color indicates that the blood could be coming from a point in the upper gastrointestinal tract.
Gertrude Levandowski survived a 96-hour procedure at a Chicago hospital to remove a giant ovarian cyst; the longest surgery. The second longest surgery ever was 40 hours long and that was to remove 6 limbs from a 8 limed baby in India. But the most common longest surgery is spinal cord surgery it is a 14 hour surgery.
The first open heart surgery was performed in 1893 in Chicago by Dr. Daniel Hale Williamsâ¦..a black man, but he wasnât given credit because of the color of his skin. Reply. No, Dr Daniel Hale Williams performed the SECOND successful operation on the the pericardium, the sac surrounding the heart in 1893.