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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

HANCOCK, Henry (1809 – 1880)

1809 – 1880

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1848

#3563

Disease of the appendix caeci cured by operation.

HANCOCK, Henry (1809 – 1880)

First recorded successful operation for peritonitis due to abscess in the appendix. Hancock was surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital, London.