Jakob Nufer

Jakob Nufer was a Swiss pig-gelder who in 1500 performed the first caesarean section in history in which the mother (his wife) survived. [cite book | last=Conner | first=Clifford D.| title=A People's History of Science | publisher= Nation Books| location=New York | year = 2005|isbn=1-56025-748-2 | pages=p312 ] The wife was reported to have borne five more children, including twins, and the baby delivered by cesarean section purportedly lived to the age of 77. [cite book | last=Henry | first=John| editor=Stephen Pumphrey, Paolo L. Rossi, and Maurice Slawinski|chapter=Doctors and Healers: Popular Culture and the Medical Profession |title=Science, Culture, and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe| publisher= St. Martin's Press| location=New York | year = 1991|isbn=0719029252 | pages=p197 ] However, since this story was not recorded until 1582, historians question its accurace. [Sewell, Jane Eliot. National Library on Medicine. "Cesarean Section: A Brief History." [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/pdf/cesarean.pdf] Published: 1993 Accessed: 2008]

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