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A list and description of the "top ten self-surgeries:"

http://listverse.com/2008/12/09/top-10-incredible-self-surge...

Dr Rogozov's figures in at #4 by their accounting, but I would stick him at #1 as he's the only one to finish the job himself and make a complete recovery without outside medical intervention.

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Well, the first one is a mother that did a C-section on herself saving the baby and not dying in the process. Pretty remarkable if you ask me.

Especially remarkable considering the >80% mortality rate for mothers until the 20th century.

"Unfortunately, surgical techniques of that day also contributed to the appallingly high maternal mortality rates. According to one estimate not a single woman survived cesarean section in Paris between 1787 and 1876."

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/cesarean/part2.html

The problem with c-sections was figuring out how to successfully sew up the uterus afterwards. In 1876 doctors started just removing the uterus after c-section.

The woman who gave herself a c-section was able to get medical care soon afterwards. Otherwise she certainly would have died from the wound.

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