Claudius Amyand
Surgeon
1660 – 1740
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Who was Claudius Amyand?
Claudius Amyand was a French born English surgeon who in 1735 performed the first recorded successful appendectomy. The patient was an 11-year boy who had an inguinal hernia combined with an acutely inflamed appendix.
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