The Chainsaw Was First Invented for Use as a Surgical Instrument for Childbirth
Yes, you read that right. A chainsaw was used to help deliver babies.
3 min readMar 7, 2021
The modern chainsaw we as know it was not invented to cut trees. It was designed and developed to cut women’s pubic bones in half during childbirth to make the birthing space wider for the baby to get out of the womb. And yes, it was a grisly as it sounds.
Between the years 1783 and 1785, two Scottish doctors, John Aitken and James Jeffray, invented a…
