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Español: Cesárea exitosa realizada por curanderos indígenas en Sar Kahuran, Uganda, según lo observado por R. W. Felkin en 1879. Fuente: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/cesarean/part2.html
English: From https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/cesarean/part2.html ; caption states "Successful Cesarean section performed by indigenous healers in en:Kahura, en:Uganda, as observed by R. W. Felkin in 1879".
Further detail from the source page: "While Barry applied Western surgical techniques, nineteenth-century travelers in Africa reported instances of indigenous people successfully carrying out the procedure with their own medical practices. In 1879, for example, one British traveller, R.W. Felkin, witnessed cesarean section performed by Ugandans. The healer used banana wine to semi-intoxicate the woman and to cleanse his hands and her abdomen prior to surgery. He used a midline incision and applied cautery to minimize hemorrhaging. He massaged the uterus to make it contract but did not suture it; the abdominal wound was pinned with iron needles and dressed with a paste prepared from roots. The patient recovered well, and Felkin concluded that this technique was well-developed and had clearly been employed for a long time. Similar reports come from Rwanda, where botanical preparations were also used to anesthetize the patient and promote wound healing."
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Source From https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/cesarean/cesarean_3.html. Caption states "Successful Cesarean section performed by indigenous healers in en:Kahura, en:Uganda. As observed by R. W. Felkin in 1879." Reported in Felkin RW. "Notes on labour in Central Africa". Edin Med J 1884;29:922-30. as cited in Dunn PM. "Robert Felkin MD (1853-1926) and caesarean delivery in Central Africa (1879)". Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 1999 May;80(3):F250-1. PMID 1720922
Author en:Robert William Felkin
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A line drawing of a pregnant woman on an inclined bed, surrounded by three helpers, one of them wielding a knife, apparently about to perform a caesarian section. All four are naked. The scene appears to be inside an African hut.

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