Synopsis

Already simmering with frustration over the hospital’s unreliable new electrical system, Thackery instructs Herman Barrow, the Knick's unscrupulous superintendent, to procure additional cadavers. He intends for these to serve as subjects for his and his team’s experimental surgical endeavors. As mortality rates among patients rise, Edwards offers to share a technique he acquired in France, but his proposal is dismissed by both Thackery and Gallinger. Robertson confronts an outbreak of typhoid fe