Claudius Aymand

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]

References

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

1. ^ Amyand's hernia (www.whonamedit.com)

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Name	Aymand, Claudius
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Date of birth	1660
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Date of death	1740
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