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First Medical Amputation-human organ cut first, evidence found
Scientific India
|September - October 2022
If the hands and feet of the body are damaged, it is cut off. But do you know when a person's hand or leg was cut off for the first time?
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When was the organ removed by surgery for the first time? According to a paper published in Nature, researchers have found the body of an ancient adolescent without a lower leg on the island of Borneo. Buried approximately 31,000 years ago, and bearing all the telltale indicators of an intentional and successful amputation, the body provides the earliest evidence of such a surgery. It suggests that ancient peoples completed com
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