His body temperature rose to 37.5�°C.1 2 Rogozov wrote in his diary:
"It seems that I have appendicitis. I am keeping quiet about it, even smiling. Why frighten my friends? Who could be of help? A polar explorer's only encounter with medicine is likely to have been in a dentist's chair."
On the next day after all the available conservative treatment was applied (antibiotics, local cooling) Rogozov decided to perform a self surgeon.
With the team's meteorologist holding the retractors, a driver to hold the mirror and other scientists passing surgical implements, he sat in a reclined position and cut out his own appendix under local anesthetic.
With a local anesthesia, he operated himself to remove the appendix. An engineer and a meteorologist assisted surgery. Wow!
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