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Well I just thought I'd throw my hat into the caesarian ring!
Here's a little gem of trivia: The first successful documented C-section on a living woman was performed in 1500 by neither a doctor or a nurse, but a gelder - a castrater of animals! This was in Germany, where a gelder called Jacob Nufer "operated" on his own wife after none of the district surgeons or midwives could help her with a very difficult birth. The pseudo-veterinary angle of this story impresses me!
Frau Nufer survived and went on to deliver more children "naturally".
Mind you - this must have been sheer luck, as the mortality rate of the mother after a Caesar remained horrendous for centuries - still as high as 86% - 100% in England in the mid 1800s!
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