Marie Colinet

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

She was the daughter of the printer Eustache Colinet and married Wilhelm Fabry on July 30, 1587 in the Church of St. Gervais in Geneva. The marriage resulted in eight children, only one of whom (Johannes, later a successful and widely traveled surgeon) survived.

No documents relating to her life after her husband's death have yet been found. The date of death is therefore based on an estimate z. Partly based on the Bern Council minutes on the settlement of the legacy of Wilhelm Fabry and the noticeable absence of Marie Colinet therein.

meaning

Marie Colinet is the most famous midwife in Switzerland, but she not only excelled in obstetrics (e.g. first use of a blunt hook to widen narrow birth canals in May 1623, first successful cesarean section in 1603), but also in the Treatment of broken bones and joint dislocations.

She made her most momentous invention on March 5, 1624, when, after several unsuccessful attempts by her husband, she came up with the idea of using a magnet to pull a piece of steel out of the eye. Although Fabry truthfully described the new procedure as his wife's invention in his report on this treatment ( 5th Centurie, Observatio 21 ), magnetic extraction was still widely associated with him. This method of removing metallic foreign bodies from the eye was further developed in the 18th and 19th centuries; it still has its raison d'être (in addition to vitrectomy ) for the experienced surgeon and with selected eyes.

Honors

In Hilden , her husband's birth town, a street (since 1993) and a secondary school (since 2016) are named after her.

Web links

Huldrych MF Koelbing : Colinet, Marie. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

↑ Jens Martin Rohrbach u. a. (Ed.): Ophthalmological Traumatology. Text book with atlas . Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, pp. 197f., ISBN 3-7945-2041-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Colinet, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss midwife and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1587
PLACE OF BIRTH	Geneva
DATE OF DEATH	after 1638
Place of death	Bern

[1] Jens Martin Rohrbach u. a. (Ed.): Ophthalmological Traumatology. Text book with atlas . Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, pp. 197f., ISBN 3-7945-2041-6 .