Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Was Gaius Julius Ceaser delivered by Ceaserean Section ?




According to Greek mythology, Appolo Asclepius from his mother's womb. Asclepius is the founder of a famous religious medicine cult.


This is the oldest mention of a Ceaserean operation.Contrary, to popular belief it is not named after Ceaser becaouse historical evidence says his mother lived long enough
to hear about her son's military exploits in Britain. In olden days, mothers who were operated on, did not survive. Some tribes in the Great Lakes area of Africa were aware of such a procedure as noted
by the traveller R.W.Felkin in Uganda. Alchohol was given as an anaesthetic and herbal medicines were used to encourage healing.

The origin of the word is a mystery. Some trace its etymology to the Latin verb 'caedare' which means to cut and the term
'caesone' was applied to infants born post-operation. Until the sixteenth and seventeenth century, it was known as caearean operation. In Jacques Guillimeau's book on midwifery
it was referred to as 'Ceaserean Section'. After then, it was increasingly called as Ceserean section.

Ugandan shamans performing a Ceaserean Section by R.W.Fulkin

Saturday, June 5, 2010


Adab Readers !

This is my first post and we will be talking about crime passionnnel . Few days back I was reading about famous crimes and came across some cases where the murderer was practically let off because the jury considered the case to be as a crime of passion. We will talk some controversial cases in history involving crime passionel in my next post.Just a brief intro for my first post.

The French are the most lenient of all races in crime passionnel cases

Quotes from wikipedia

"A crime of passion, in popular usage, refers to a crime in which the perpetrator commits a crime, especially assault or murder, against someone because of sudden strong impulse such as sudden rage or heartbreak rather than as a premeditated crime. A typical crime of passion might involve an aggressive pub-goer who assaults another guest following an argument or a husband who discovers his wife has made him a cuckold and proceeds to brutally batter or even kill his wife or the man with whom she was involved."

"In some countries, notably France, crime passionnel (or crime of passion) was a valid defense during murder cases; during the 19th century, some cases could be a custodial sentence for two years for the murderer, while the spouse was dead; this ended in France as the Napoleonic code was updated in the 1970s so that a specific father's authority upon his whole family was over."

The murderer wife of a popular French minister was allowed to walk free because the jury was unanimously crime of passion.

A photo of Yvonne Chevallier, guilty wife of murdered French minister Pierre Chevalier is given.