Jakob Nufer
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Jakob Nufer was a Swiss pig-gelder who in 1500 performed the first caesarean section in history in which the mother (his wife) survived.[1] The wife was reported to have borne more children and lived to the age of 77.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Conner, Clifford D. (2005). A People's History of Science. New York: Nation Books, p312. ISBN 1-56025-748-2.
- ^ Henry, John (1991). "Doctors and Healers: Popular Culture and the Medical Profession", in Stephen Pumphrey, Paolo L. Rossi, and Maurice Slawinski: Science, Culture, and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe. New York: St. Martin's Press, p197. ISBN 0719029252.
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