In addition, she performed caesarian sections successfully, and also was the first person to use a magnet to extract a piece of metal from a patient's eye.
[2] On July 25, 1587, at St. Gervais church in Geneva, she married a surgeon, Wilhelm Fabry (also William Fabry, Guilelmus Fabricius Hildanus, or Fabricius von Hilden, b. June 25, 1560, d. February 15, 1634, often called the "Father of German surgery").
From 1602 to 1610, the Fabrys stationed in Payerne, CT. Vaud, after which they traveled through Switzerland, Holland and the Rhineland, finally in 1615, they settled in Bern, where both were recognized by the award of citizenship.
[8] In 1624, after her husband had attempted unsuccessfully to extract metal from a patient's eye, she came up with the idea to use a magnet—a technique which worked then and still is in use today.
[1] She used heat to expand and stimulate the uterus in childbirth, performed Caesarian sections, and successfully removed eye splinters.
[3] In one especially difficult case of a man with two shattered ribs, she had to open his chest and wire together the fragments of bone.
[11] - The first to use a magnet to remove fragments of iron or steel from the eye - Mentioned by Judy Chicago in her art work The Dinner Party: Heritage Floor [12] In 1993, a street in Hilden was named after Marie Colinet.
The schools states that Marie Colinet was a "self-confident woman and a very good role model for students.