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Claudius Amyand (c. 1680 – 6 July 1740) was a French surgeon who performed the first recorded successful appendectomy. Amyand was born around 1680, the son of Isaac Amyand and Anne Hottot in Mornac , Saintonge, France.
French physician best known for performing the first documented appendectomy. Amyand, surgeon to the King of England, recorded removing the inflamed appendix of a 12-year-old boy in 1736, noting that the organ was perforated by a pin the boy had apparently swallowed.
Jun 4, 2015 · In 1735, Dr. Claudius Amyand performed the world’s first successful appendectomy, at St. George’s Hospital in London. The patient was an 11-year old boy whose appendix had become perforated by a pin he had swallowed.
Surgeon. 1680 - 1740. Claudius Amyand described himself as 'of St Martin in the Fields' in his will (Prob 11/703, 9 July 1740).
Feb 1, 2023 · Medical historians unanimously credit Claudius Amyand for performing the first ever appendectomy. He achieved this distinction not by opening and exploring the abdomen, which was still not possible in his time, but by operatively removing an infected appendix from the kind of hernia that bears his name.
Mar 29, 2024 · Claudius Amyand (c.1681-1740) was a French surgeon who performed the first successful appendectomy in 1735, on an 11-year-old boy who presented with an inflamed, perforated appendix in his inguinal hernia sac 7.
Claudius Amyand (c. 1680 – 6 July 1740) was a French surgeon who performed the first recorded successful appendectomy. Amyand was born around 1680, the son of Isaac Amyand and Anne Hottot in Mornac, Saintonge, France.
