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Childbirth

Images

  • Obstetrics: Breech presentation
  • A woman's pelvis after a pubiotomy - to widen the birth canal for a vaginal delivery of a baby - previous two babies died. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • Eleven decorated initials from the Basel 1555 edition of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Woodcuts, 1555.
  • 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.
  • Text to accompany illustration of a birthing chair
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    A woman in labour lying on her side recieving an epidural.

    Spears, Heather, 1934- | Date: 1987 | Reference: 3329263i.61
    Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A woman recovering from childbirth; a physician; and three people. Coloured engraving, 183-.

    | Date: 1830-1839 | Reference: 21531i
    • Books

    Birth / edited by Imogen Tyler and Caroline Gatrell ; associate editor: Irene Gedalof.

    | Date: 2009
    • Pictures

    A caesarean section in progress.

    Spears, Heather, 1934- | Date: 1987 | Reference: 3329263i.103
    Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.
    • Books

    Awake and aware : participating in childbirth through psychoprophylaxis / Irwin Chabon, M.D ; introduction by Heinz L. Luschinsky, M.D.

    Chabon, Irwin | Date: [1966]
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