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Speculum (Medicine)

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  • An infected sore on the female genitalia shown with the aid of a vaginal speculum. Watercolour by C.D' Alton, 18--.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • Marie Louis Félix Lejars. Process print after A. Barrère, 1930.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • Le speculum de la matrice a travers les ages / par V. Deneffe.
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Catalogue

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    A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.

    | Date: [1852?] | Reference: 563243i
    Part of: Morality of modern medicine-mongers. Dedicated to the husbands, fathers, and brothers, of England, and also to the societies for the prevention of vice
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    A surgeon or gynaecologist examining a woman with a vaginal speculum. Drawing by Félicien Rops.

    Rops, Félicien, 1833-1898. | Date: Between 1800 and 1899 | Reference: 536241i
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    Specification of Henry Joseph Francis Hubert Foveaux : specula, &c.

    Foveaux, Henry Joseph Francis Hubert. | Date: 1861
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    Specification of Thomas Paton Hawksley : specula.

    Hawksey, Thomas Paton. | Date: 1873
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    Chirurgie antique : le speculum de la matrice à travers les âges / par V. Deneffe.

    Deneffe, Victor, 1835-1908. | Date: 1902
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