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ROONHUYZE, Hendrick van (1622 – 1672)

1622 – 1672

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1663 CE

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Heel-konstige aanmerkkingen betreffende de gebreeken der vrouwen.

Roonhuyze’s book is regarded as the first work on operative gynecology in the modern sense. He successfully performed caesarean section several times, and he used retractors for the repair of vesicovaginal fistu…