Who was the first person to get operated on?

Question

Who was the first person to get operated on?

Answer 1

We don't know, but archaeologists have unearthed some rather advanced looking surgical instruments from ancient Greek and Egyptian tombs.

Answer 2

In a stratum dating from 50,000 years ago, the skeleton was found of a man who had lost an arm several years before his death.  Clearly there must have been some techniques for stopping bleeding and keeping the wound clean.

Answer 3

We honestly have no idea.  There are many surgical instruments that have come out of ancient Egyptian and Greek societies, and there are even some ancient Latin American tribes that drilled holes in peoples' skulls to relieve pressure in a form of archaic brain surgery, a practice which has been traced back to the Neolithic period.  Below is link to a very interesting .pdf file about this practice.  So, unless you want to go all the way back to the Neolithic and grunt at some pre-modern human in an attempt to find out his/her name, you're kinda screwed....

http://www.mesoweb.com/features/tiesler/...  

Answer 4

The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are well known for their invention of medical techniques in the 3rd century BC.  Ancient tribes from Asia, India, South America and the Dakota Indians also had surgical techniques.  It is impossible to say who had the first surgery.

Answer 5

No one knows the answer to that question, but anthropologists have discovered skeletal remains that date back many thousands of years, which show marks that indicate some kind of surgery was carried out. These marks were generally on the skull - it seems the ancients used to drill holes in the skull to let out devils or whatever - the wonder is that people survived such ministrations, but they did. When it comes to soft tissue surgery - stitching up wounds etc - there would be no trace left, so that could have been going on for generations before the skull trephining. Spell check doesn't think that's a word, but it is. and it refers to operating on the skull or the eyeball.  

Answer 6

It is very hard to say because traces of surgery (trepanning) are present in skulls of the neolithic, found in France and dating around 6500 years ago.

It is known that surgery was quite common in ancient Egypt (first found text of surgery is 3500 years old, from there) , Greece, Rome, but it was considered a dirty hand job (from this the name : it means hand job) and left, up to at least the whole middle age and over, to barbers and beauticians. Doctors usually just took care of medicine and not surgery

The first surgery with anesthesia  was performed by  Chinese physician Ha Tuo, died in year 208, mixing wine and cannabis.

In India surgery is reported in Ayurveda texts.

The first modern medical surgeon was the french Ambrose Pare (1510-1590) , but surgery didn't become the current medical specialty up to probably field doctor following Napoleon in his campaigns at the beginning of 1800  and specialized in treating gunshots