April 27 – On This Day in Medical History
Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with April 27.
Events
1887 – Thomas George Morton performed the first recorded intentional appendicectomy for acute appendicitis followed by survival. The 26-year-old patient had perforated appendicitis with abscess and generalized purulent peritonitis. Morton ligated and removed the diseased appendix, and the patient recovered.
Births
1862 – Johannes Otto Kehr (1862-1916), German surgeon; described Kehr’s Sign, and Kehr T-tube (Kehrsche T-Drain) (1912)
Deaths
Further reading
- Morton TG. Inflammation of the vermiform appendix: its results, diagnosis and treatment, together with the reports of seven cases of excision of the vermiform appendix for perforative appendicitis, with exhibition of five of the patients. J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. 1890
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