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Old 10-06-2014, 01:49 PM   #4
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Default Re: A detailed example of good low tech surgery

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Originally Posted by tantric View Post
After eleven days, I'd guess she was out of the woods. It sounds terrible, but apparently it compared well to what was being done in Europe only a short time before.
I would expect that if sepsis had not set in by that point, it would have required extreme ill luck for it to do so thereafter ... seems to be a pretty successful operation for the time: IIRC it would be into the C20 before a woman could remain fertile after a Caesar and within the last 20-30 years that technique allowed a natural delivery to follow a Caesar. I would guess most European surgeons couldn't be sure of their patient in 1879 and, as you say, would have probably been less effective prior to that.
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