James Barry

Um, but it was being resisted, his antisepsis and asepsis technique ideas were, were resisted for quite some time.

Um, another extraordinary story is that of James Barry.

I don't know if you've heard of James Barry.

But Barry, um, in 1826, so 200 years ago, um, performed what the National Library of Medicine described as the first recorded successful cesarean in the British Empire.

They worked in the army in South Africa.

But Mary Ann has a brother, and her brother is famous.

His name is James Barry.

He is a painter, a royal academician, a difficult and brilliant man who has spent years covering the walls of a great hall in London with enormous paintings of the progress of human culture.

He argues with everyone.

In late November of 1809, a mother and a young man board a ship for Edinburgh.

The young man has a new name.

He has taken his uncle's name, James Barry, and added two more in honor of his patrons, James Miranda Stuart Barry.

He is short.