Article ID: CBB157296459

William Cookesley, William Hunter and the First Patient to Survive Removal of the Appendix in 1731 – a Case History With 31 Years’ Follow Up (2016)

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William Cookesley, a surgeon in Devon, England, successfully operated on a patient with an Amyand hernia in 1731, incidentally excising the appendix. His patient is the earliest documented to have survived appendicectomy. This was confirmed by a post mortem examination 31 years later. Part of the remaining bowel was preserved by William Hunter and this specimen remains in the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.

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Authors & Contributors
Armocida, Emanuele
L. M. Irvine
Zanon, Alessia
Arrighi, Leonardo
Alessandro Riga
Omar A. Jarral
Concepts
Surgery
Surgical techniques
Medicine
Biographies
Medicine and culture
Medical instruments and apparatus
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
Medieval
21st century
Places
Great Britain
England
Italy
United Kingdom
Milan (Italy)
Peru
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Royal College of Surgeons, London
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
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