Winston Churchill: acute appendicitis in October 1922 ('I had lost not only my appendix but my office as Secretary of State')

J R Soc Med. 2019 Aug;112(8):341-348. doi: 10.1177/0141076819830039. Epub 2019 Feb 19.

Authors

J Allister Vale^{1

2}, John W Scadding³

Affiliations

¹ 1 City Hospital, Birmingham B18 7QH.
² 2 School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
³ 3 National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, London WC1N 3BG, UK.

No abstract available

Publication types

Historical Article
Portrait

MeSH terms

Appendectomy / history*
Appendicitis / history*
Appendicitis / surgery
Famous Persons*
History, 20th Century
Humans
Male
Politics*
United Kingdom