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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

AMYAND, Claudius (1660 – 1740)

1660 – 1740

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1736

#3559

Of an inguinal rupture, with a pin in the appendix caeci, incrusted with stone; and some observations on wounds in the guts.

AMYAND, Claudius (1660 – 1740)

First recorded successful appendectomy. Amyand was Sergeant-Surgeon to George II and first principal surgeon to Westminster Hospital. See also the paper in Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1953, 97, 643-52, which reproduces part…