Abstract
The history of vaginal Cesarean section is recorded in the last decade of obstetric literature. To Duhrssen belongs the credit of having introduced the operation to the notice of the profession, while he and his German confreres have done much to elucidate the indications and technic of the operation. The result secured by them in the treatment of eclampsia by vaginal Cesarean section has reduced the maternal death-rate to a lower figure than that obtained by any other line of treatment. Fully nine-tenths of the literature on the subject is published in the German language. The United States comes second. A few articles are found in the French, Spanish and Italian languages. In 1903 J. M. M. Kerr 1 published a report of a case of vaginal Cesarean section. Impressed with the value of the operation in the treatment of eclampsia, N. T. Brewis determined to employ the method in
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