An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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HANCOCK, Henry

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Disease of the appendix caeci cured by operation.

Lond. med. Gaz., n.s. 7, 547-50, 1848.

First recorded successful operation for peritonitis due to abscess in the appendix. Hancock was surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital, London.



Subjects: SURGERY: General , SURGERY: General › Appendicitis