Template:Did you know nominations/Abraham Groves

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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 10:01, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Abraham Groves

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Abraham Groves circa 1870

• ... that Abraham Groves (pictured) is credited with performing the first appendectomy in North America? Source: Seal, J., 1981: "Credit is given to those whose contributions have advanced the frontiers of surgery-- Lawson Tait was the first to diagnose and remove a diseased appendix in 1880 in England and Abraham Groves the first on the North American continent, in 1883, in Ontario." [1] (full article can be downloaded here, volume 4 issue 24)
  • ALT1:... that Abraham Groves (pictured) performed Canada's first suprapubic lithotomy in a tavern? Source: Caumartin et al., 2010: "For his first stone extraction, Groves proceeded through a suprapubic route. His description of 4 cases was a first in Canada... Groves, however, performed the suprapubic cystolithotomy on April 20, 1878, in a room of an old hotel, the Old Bullfrog tavern in Guelph, Ontario." [2]

• Reviewed: Waniguchi
• Comment: You could probably get some more hooks out of this article. Feel free to suggest others if you think these ones aren't so great.

5x expanded by SpicyMilkBoy (talk). Self-nominated at 02:00, 2 October 2019 (UTC).

•  Doing... Reviewing, 5 X expanded, image clear, reads well, hooks interesting and in article, no copyvio issues. Will complete soon. Whispyhistory (talk) 05:17, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

• . Hooks are in article and followed by inline citation. Prefer proposed hook. QPQ done, image in public domain, pixels ok. Enjoyable read. Well done. Whispyhistory (talk) 07:34, 2 October 2019 (UTC)