He compared the sound as though from a voice in the cellar.

This child was in the uterus, not in the vagina, and continued the crying during the whole of the five minutes occupied by delivery.
Cesarean Section .-- Although the legendary history of Cesarean section is quite copious, it is very seldom that we find authentic records in the writings of the older medical observers.

The works of Hippocrates, Aretxeus, Galen, Celsus, and Aetius contain nothing relative to records of successful Cesarean sections.

However, Pliny says that Scipio Africanus was the first and Manlius the second of the Romans who owed their lives to the operation of Cesarean section; in his seventh book he says that Julius Caesar was born in this way, the fact giving origin to his name.

Others deny this and say that his name came from the thick head of hair which he possessed.