Dear Keiva: Quite a while ago I posted from official gynecology and obstetrical site that Caesar was not born that way. And the spelling the site preferred was Cesarean.

Yet, the early history of cesarean section remains shrouded in myth and is of dubious accuracy. Even the origin of
"cesarean" has apparently been distorted over time. It is commonly believed to be derived from the surgical birth of
Julius Caesar, however this seems unlikely since his mother Aurelia is reputed to have lived to hear of her son's
invasion of Britain. At that time the procedure was performed only when the mother was dead or dying, as an attempt
to save the child for a state wishing to increase its population. Roman law under Caesar decreed that all women who
were so fated by childbirth must be cut open; hence, cesarean. Other possible Latin origins include the verb
"caedare," meaning to cut, and the term "caesones" that was applied to infants born by postmortem operations.
Ultimately, though, we cannot be sure of where or when the term cesarean was derived. Until the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries the procedure was known as cesarean operation. This began to change following the
publication in 1598 of Jacques Guillimeau's book on midwifery in which he introduced the term "section."
Increasingly thereafter "section" replaced "operation."