What a voice! And wasn't he the voice of Kaa the snake in The Jungle Book? One of my favorite characters in the movie.
1885 Dr. William W. Grant of Davenport, Iowa, performed what is believed to have been the first appendectomy. The patient was a 22-year-old farm girl, Mary Gartside
One of my uncles, as a young adult, had to have his appendix removed and they found a ball bearing in it. Probably swallowed it when a toddler. Can you imagine the doctor's surprise?
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