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Nine diagrams illustrating breech and natural births and the obstetrical instruments used to assist them. Engraving by A. Bell.

Five diagrams illustrating the birth of a child with the use of forceps. Engraving by A. Bell.

Eight diagrams illustrating difficult births and obstetrical instruments. Engraving by A. Bell.

Ten diagrams illustrating various methods of delivering a baby using forceps. Etching, 1791.

Seven diagrams illustrating difficult births, obstetrical instruments and a conjoined twin. Etching by Barlow.

Eight diagrams illustrating babies in the womb in different positions about to enter the world. Etching by Barlow.

Seven diagrams illustrating the birth of a child with the use of forceps. Engraving by A. Bell.

A seated woman giving birth aided by a midwife and two other attendants, in the background two men are looking at the stars and plotting a horoscope. Woodcut, 1583[?].

An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.

On axis-traction forceps / by Alexander Russell Simpson.

A treatise on the employment of certain methods of friction and inhalation in consumption, asthma and other maladies / by John Pocock Holmes.

Description du forceps indicateur, ou l'instrument mousse, présentant sur ses branches, d'une manière claire et précise, un petit manuel d'accouchement anormal. / par M. Audibert.

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On axis-traction forceps / by Alexander Russell Simpson.

A treatise on the employment of certain methods of friction and inhalation in consumption, asthma and other maladies / by John Pocock Holmes.

Ten diagrams illustrating various methods of delivering a baby using forceps. Etching, 1791.

Five diagrams illustrating the birth of a child with the use of forceps. Engraving by A. Bell.

Description du forceps indicateur, ou l'instrument mousse, présentant sur ses branches, d'une manière claire et précise, un petit manuel d'accouchement anormal. / par M. Audibert.