Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!topaz!uwvax!husc6!harvard!panda!genrad!decvax!savax!sii!dmcnh!mark
From: mark@dmcnh.UUCP (Mark Roddy)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: C-sections new?
Message-ID: <262@dmcnh.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Jul-86 09:22:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: dmcnh.262
Posted: Fri Jul 11 09:22:54 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jul-86 05:57:52 EDT
References: <684@bu-cs.UUCP> <927@mmm.UUCP>
Organization: Datamedia Corp, Nashua, NH
Lines: 17


> 
> advances made just in the last two centuries.  C-sections are a RECENT
> development.  
> 
I think a fellow named Julius Caesar was born via C-section quite a bit
longer than two centuries ago, and I don't think that the technique was
invented just for him. Cesarians are indeed one of the oldest surgical
techniques. (It is true however that hunter/gatherer societies probably
did not perform c-sections.) I am under the impression that most primitive
societies do have some surgical techniques in their health care customs.

The greatest advance in medical technology has actually been simple sanitary
practices, i.e. separation of sewage from drinking water, not gadgetry.
Sanitation requires no advanced technology whatsoever.

*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***