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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: C-sections new?
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Date: Mon, 14-Jul-86 14:34:31 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 14 14:34:31 1986
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> > 
> > 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.
> 

C-section is named for Julius Caesar, but historians are now generally
agreed that Caesar was not born by C-section, since his mother was alive
many years after Julius' birth.

I should have said that SUCCESSFUL (mother lives) C-sections are a recent
development.  C-sections to save the child have been around for a long
time.  But the mother always died.

Clayton E. Cramer