Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: The Dinner Party: Heritage Floor: Marie Colinet

Judy Chicago (American, b. 1939). The Dinner Party (Heritage Floor; detail), 1974–79. Porcelain with rainbow and gold luster, 48 x 48 x 48 ft. (14.6 x 14.6 x 14.6 m). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation, 2002.10. © Judy Chicago. Photograph by Jook Leung Photography

Marie Colinet
b. circa 1560, Geneva; d. circa 1640, Switzerland

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.

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