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...oldest Egyptian mummy known is a pregnant woman. After her gravid body was dried and bandaged, 4,600 years ago, her husband encased her in a tomb which was opened only last month. Ancient doctors used forceps (which killed the baby) and performed Caesarean sections (which killed the mother) in cases of difficult delivery. Hindus today often put a brazier of hot charcoal under the maternity bed to assist Nature. More primitive obstetricians help by jumping up & down on the pregnant woman's abdomen...
...state laws, Dr. Taussig assured doctors that their colleagues have performed therapeutic abortions without professional risk for any one of the following legitimate reasons: "1) very recent pregnancy; 2) general debility with loss of weight; 3) after suppurative appendicitis that has produced extensive adhesions; 4) after a previous Caesarean operation; 5) to prevent increasing prolapse of the pelvic organs; 6) after plastic repair of the pelvic eugenic floor to reasons such prevent as a birth of recurrence; 7) eugenic reasons such as birth of a defective child or parental feeblemindedness; 8) suicidal tendencies; 9) economic reasons in women of high...
Surgeons Watson recalled that on rare occasions when a parturient woman was bleeding to death from a Caesarean section, her life had been saved by transfusion with blood drained from her abdomen. With the idea of trying to do the same with the wounded butcher boy, the surgeons sopped wads of cheesecloth into the bloody hollow of his chest, wrung them out in a glass pitcher. Thus they quickly recovered almost a quart of blood...
Sirs Your press reporter's footnote that "the Caesarean section is named for Julius Caesa . . ." will be followed, I believe, by a number of letters from readers who were informed concerning this unimportant but interesting fact by Howard W. Haggard, M.D., of Yale University, in his book Devils, Drugs and Doctors...
...Caesar's mother lived for several years after he was born. The operation obtained its name from the fact that the Roman law required this procedure in case of the mother's death; the laws under the emperors became Caesarean laws, and the operation the Caesarean operation." JOHN M. SIEGEL...