Word: gelder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin, Caesar. Actually, the operation predates even the first Caesar by centuries. It is one of the oldest on record, but was performed only after the mother had died. The first known caesarean on a living woman was performed about 1500 by one Jacob Nufer, an accomplished Dutch sow-gelder, who used a razor for surgery on his wife. She not only survived, but went on to bear him six more chil dren, all by normal births...