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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HALL, Richard John

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Suppurative peritonitis due to ulceration and suppuration of the vermiform appendix; laparotomy; resection of the vermiform appendix; toilette of the peritonaeum; drainage; recovery.

N.Y. med. J., 43, 662-63, 1886.

This is believed to be the first reported case of survival after removal of a perforated appendix. Hall worked with William Halsted during the 1880s and participated in Halsted’s experiments with cocaine as a local anaesthetic. Like Halsted, Hall became addicted to cocaine. It caused his premature death.



Subjects: SURGERY: General , SURGERY: General › Appendicitis