Title Caesarean birth : the work of Francois Rousset in Renaissance France : a new treatise on hysterotomotokie or Caesarien childbirth / translated from the original French by Ronald M. Cyr, MD, FACOG, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA ; edited and with a commentary by Thomas F. Baskett, MC FRCS(C) FRCS(Ed) FRCOG FACOG DHMSA, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.