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The very first surgery preformed 35000 years ago on a 3 year old Evidence of trepanation, the first surgical procedure, dates to 6500 B.C. Trepanation was the practice of drilling or cutting a hole through the skull to expose the brain. This was thought to cure mental illness, migraines, epileptic seizures and was used as emergency surgery after a head wound. -
first c section was in Switzerland in 1500 performed the operation on his wife. After several days in labor and help from thirteen midwives, the woman was unable to deliver her baby.
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Dr. Williams became the first surgeon to performed open-heart surgery on a human.
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Georg Kelling of Dresden, Germany, performed the first laparoscopic procedure in dogs, Hans Christian Jacobaeus of Sweden performed the first laparoscopic operation in humans.
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Another treatment that was believed to be a cure for asthma was chloroform. This article claims that one treatment with chloroform completely relieved all symptoms of asthma. This belief would eventually result in the deaths of patients who had overdosed during an asthma attack. -
very first AOS ( Adams Oliver syndrome) diagnosed was on a new born. found by Adams and Oliver. aos is a cause of body deformation including small limbs, bald spots, marble skin, deformed organs.
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the first face transplant was in 2005 pairs and it took place in the University Hospital Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona. preformed on a farmer getting injured by a gun miss fire