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AlbertCat

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7. rather than do a c-section,

Reply to Manifestor_of_Light (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 10:33 AM

Mar 2016

Remember.... in the 19th century there are no antibiotics. They aren't even sure that "germ theory" is correct yet. So a C-section may have been more dangerous and a last resort.

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