The Man Who Formulated Pie to 35 Places

The guy who first formulated pie to 35 places was a German mathematician called Ludolf van Serlin, Soyland. And his gravestone reads 3.1415926535897932. I don't know if it is a recipe for pie. It is time for our final fact of the show. My fact this week is that doctors used to prepare their patients for surgery by either getting them really drunk or smacking them on the head with a mallet and hoping they didn't kill them.