Claudius Aymand
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Claudius Aymand (1660-1740) was a French surgeon who in 1736 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]
[edit] References
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1736, 39: 329-336
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