Claudius Aymand

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Claudius Aymand (1660-1740) was a French surgeon who in 1763 performed the first recorded successful appendectomy. The patient was an 11-year boy who had an inguinal hernia combined with an acutely inflamed appendix. [1]

Source: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1736, 39: 329-336


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