A Labor Theory of Value (or why I like John Cole’s Mother)…
…See this.

(Truncated posting due to the fact that I have just 6,000 words or so left in my Newton book, and the sucker is due down in NY by the end of next week).
Image: Louis-Léopold Boill, “The Innoculation,” 1807. (I know — small pox innoculation is not surgery — but in 1807, it sure was life-saving. This painting is an image of the cutting edge of medicine at the time; Edward Jenner had first demonstrated the efficacy of the use of cowpox to induce immunity against just nine years before.) Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Update: Balloon Juice link fixed.
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