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Caesarean section would not become a regular part of the surgical repertory until three centuries after publication of Rousset's hysterotomotokie. From contentious and inauspicious beginnings as a morbid operation 'of necessity', abdominal delivery has become a routine procedure during our lifetime. This has aroused new controversy, generating a great deal of interest in this subject within the medical profession and the educated public. The evolution - technical and sociological - of the caesarean operation has proved to be fertile ground for historical research. Francois Rousset's groundbreaking treatise was the first ever written about caesarean section. Whatever doubts would later be raised about the veracity of Rousset's case reports or of his own role in these operations, it will become apparent to the medical reader that someone was performing this surgery more than 400 years ago. Such details could never have been the product of Rousset's imagination. It is also fair to say that nothing important was added to the theory or technique of caesarean during the following three centuries, except perhaps the use of uterine sutures.

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