Cesarean Section: Is There a Right Technique?

摘要

When and where the first cesarean section was performed remains a mystery, although we know that the early procedures ended in maternal death. Even the origin of the term has given rise to a great deal of discussion. Historically, it has been asserted that Julius Caesar (100-44 bc) was born by this means and obtained his name from the manner in which he was delivered (a caeso matris utero). This can hardly be correct because his mother, Julia, lived many years after his birth, a fact that is evidenced by his many letters to her. There seems to have been a Roman law passed during the reign of Numa Pompilius (762-715 bc), in which it was ordered that the operation be performed on women dying in the last few weeks of pregnancy, in hopes of saving the child. This lex regia, as it was called at first under the emperors, became the lex cesareae, and the operation became known as the cesarean operation.