CÆSAREAN OPERATION AFTER DEATH.

Cæsarean Section—Lower Segment Operation

Case of Cæsarean Hystero-Oöphorectomy, or Porro's Operation

once accompanied him to a miserable hovel in the West Port, and found there a poorly nourished, wretched looking woman in the pains of labour. On inquiry, she was doubtful about her exact age, and stated this to be her second pregnancy?her first child having been still-born about two years before, after a labour of three days' duration. Her condition during her present pregnancy had been fair, ...

Cæsarean Section

Cæsarean Birth *

IN the oldest literature reference was made to Caesarean birth; this became the Caesarean operation, and it is only during the present century that Caesarean section, a term coined by Guillimeau in 1598, has been in common usage. We are in debt to Dr. Samuel Johnson (1755) for providing as good a definition of the term as any: "The Cesarean Section is cutting a child out of the womb, either dea...

Cæsarean Section in Eclampsia