British politician, obstetrician and gynecologist

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Sir William Overend Priestley. Photograph by C. Silvy.

Buildings and surgeons and physicians of King's College Hospital, London. Coloured lithograph by Beynon & Company after H. Hale.

Sir William Overend Priestley. Photogravure by Swan after a painting by Rudolf Lehmann.

Sir William Overend Priestley. Photograph by G. Jerrard, 1881.

The pathology of intra-uterine death.

The pathology of intra-uterine death being the Lumleian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London, March 1887 / by William O. Priestley.

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The pathology of intra-uterine death.

The pathology of intra-uterine death being the Lumleian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London, March 1887 / by William O. Priestley.