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Mothers - Mortality

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  • A skeleton as Death embraces a pregnant woman. Woodcut by Gerhard Marcks, 1959.
  • A heavily pregnant woman walking a road littered with risks to her death: reducing risks of child birth in Uganda. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health, ca. 1998.
  • The birth of Benjamin and the death of Rachel. Oil painting after Francesco Furini.
  • The birth of Benjamin and the death of Rachel. Oil painting after Francesco Furini.
  • A heavily pregnant woman walking a road littered with risks to her death: reducing risks of child birth in Uganda. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health, ca. 1998.
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    On the duration of labour as a cause of mortality and danger to the mother and infant; &c : in reply to a letter of Dr. Collins / by J.Y. Simpson.

    Simpson, James Young, 1811-1870. | Date: 1848
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    On the mortality of childbed and maternity hospitals / by J. Matthews Duncan.

    | Date: 1870
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    A skeleton as Death embraces a pregnant woman. Woodcut by Gerhard Marcks, 1959.

    Marcks, Gerhard. | Date: [1979?] | Reference: 803818i
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    Deaths in childbed : a preventable mortality : being the Milroy lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, 1904 / by W. Williams.

    Williams, William, 1857-1911. | Date: 1904
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    Death from rupture of the uterus : inversion of the uterus, and expulsion of the child by gaseous putrefaction / by Alfred S. Taylor.

    Taylor, Alfred Swaine, 1806-1880. | Date: 1865
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