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Concept

Obstetrics

Images

  • A jolly surgeon picks up a newly-delivered baby and asks for its ticket of arrival. Colour process print after by D.E. Galanis, c. 1910.
  • The birth of mankynde : otherwyse named the womans booke. / Newly set forth, corrected, and augmented. Whose contentes ye may reade in the table of the booke, and most playnely in the prologue. By Thomas Raynalde phisition.
  • MS Japanese 25
  • Three interior diagrams of an adult human uterus. Etching by G. Scotin.
  • University College Hospital, London: the Maternity Hospital and Nurses' home, Huntley Street (subesequently the Rockefeller Building). Photo-lithograph, 1923, after C. A. Farey, 1922.
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Catalogue

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    Compendious system of midwifery : chiefly designed to facilitate the inquiries.

    Dewees, William P. (William Potts), 1768-1841. | Date: 1824
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    The Prince Regent presenting to political ministers the expected baby of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold, who urinates in their faces; representing the burden of taxation required by the Royal family. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1816.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: 1 August 1816 | Reference: 12212i
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    Klinik der geburtshülflichen Operationen / von Heinrich Fritsch.

    | Date: 1880
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    Bearing meaning : the language of birth / Robbie Pfeufer Kahn.

    Kahn, Robbie Pfeufer, 1941- | Date: [1995], ©1995
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    Tableau de l'amour conjugal / par N. Venette.

    Venette, Nicolas, 1633-1698 | Date: 1837
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