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The Ship's Surgeon Who Cut Out His Own Appendix
19th Century

The Ship's Surgeon Who Cut Out His Own Appendix

A ship's surgeon performed the first successful appendectomy in history in 1805—on himself, in the middle of the Arctic Ocean.

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