J. B. M. Hertzog

It will not be done successfully in Britain itself for another seven years.

The family names the baby boy James Barry Munnik, after the doctor who delivered him.

That name is passed down the family, and sixty years later, a boy named James Barry Munnik Hertzog will be born into it and will grow up to be prime minister of South Africa.

The doctor stands up from the table.

It is the first recorded cesarean in the British Empire and one of the first anywhere in which both survived.

It will not be done successfully in Britain itself for another seven years.

The family names the baby boy James Barry Munnock after the doctor who delivered him.

That name is passed down the family, and sixty years later, a boy named James Barry Munnock Hertzog will be born into it and will grow up to be Prime Minister of South Africa.