Marie Colinet

Marie Colinet (* in Geneva? † after 1638 () in Bern ) was a midwife and wound care provider. She exercised their duties as wife and assistant of surgeon Wilhelm Fabry, who also called himself after his birthplace Hilden Fabricius Hildanus.

She was the daughter of Ips typographus Eustache Colinet and married on July 30, 1587 in the church of St. Gervais in Geneva Wilhelm Fabry. The marriage produced eight children were born, only one of which (John, later himself a successful and widely traveled surgeon ) she survived.

To date, no documents have been found about her life after the death of her husband. The date of death is therefore based on an estimate that some the Bernese council protocols on the management of the heritage of Wilhelm Fabry and the conspicuous absence of Marie Colinet is based.

Importance

Marie Colinet is considered most famous midwife in Switzerland, but was distinguished not only in obstetrics (eg, first-time use of a blunt hook for extending close the birth canal in May 1623 the first successful implementation of a caesarean section in 1603 ), but also in the treatment of bone fractures and joint dislocations.

Your most consequential invention they made ​​on 5 March 1624 when she came after several unsuccessful attempts of her husband on the idea to bring a steel fragments using a magnet from the eye. Although Fabry, the new method truthfully described as an invention of his wife in his report on this treatment (5th Centuries, observatio 21), the magnetic extraction was still widely associated with him. This method for the removal of metallic foreign bodies from the eye was further developed in the 18th and 19th centuries; it has even today ( in addition to vitrectomy ) for the experienced surgeon and in selected eyes its raison d'être.

Honors

In Hilden, her husband's birthplace, a street named after her in 1993.