Through not being connected with a large hospital, he never took a leading position as a surgeon in London, but he performed one operation of historical importance.
The case is described by Andree himself in a letter to Sir Astley Cooper, published in the appendix to a paper on ‘Cynanche Laryngea’ by Dr. John Richard Farre (Med.-Chir.
335), but had been previously related in 1786 in an inaugural dissertation by Dr. T. White, published at Leyden in that year.
The same operation was done in 1812 by Sir Astley Cooper himself, and afterwards became celebrated in the hands of Bretonneau and Trousseau.
In Andree's operation the annular cartilages were not divided, but only two punctures made in the membrane between them.