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| | OBGYN.net - Choosing Cesarean Birth: An alternative to today’s Crisis in Natural Childbirth? M. Murphy, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | So for instance, in Great Britain the first operation of this kind, where the life of the mother was saved, was performed by a surgeon, James Barlow of Lancashire, while he worked in Chorley in 1793. |
 | | The South African child, James Barry Munnik, survived, and his grandson, James Barry Munnik Hertzog (1866-1942), later became the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1924 to 1939. |
 | | During the subsequent decades tremendous medical advances were made in the fields of microbiology, which led to increasingly effective antiseptic technique, surgical technique and anesthetics. |
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