Marie Colinet

Midwife and surgeon Marie Colinet advanced the procedure of caesarean section delivery in Germany. Her husband, Wilhelm Fabry, also a surgeon, is known today as the “father of German surgery.” In 1624, assisting her husband in his medical practice, Marie used a magnet to extract steel from a patient’s eye. Although Wilhelm credited her with inventing the technique in his written description of it, medical historicans usually attribute it to him.