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Concept

Fetus

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  • Rueff's Conceptu et generationi...
  • Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.
  • A bourgeois wife shows her husband the preserved foetus of her cousin. Wood engraving by F. Rouget after S.G.C. Gavarni.
  • SEM of wounded mouse foetus
  • Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.
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Catalogue

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    Human reproduction and gestation: foetuses and the male and female reproductive systems in cross-section, and three nudes. Photograph, 1920/1940, of eight framed bas-reliefs, 18--?.

    | Date: 1920-1940 | Reference: 566116i
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    A couple kissing within a syringe from which a drop of liquid containing a fetus is released with a warning about the risk of sex, drugs and AIDS; advertisement for the Louisiana AIDS hotline. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 667910i
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    Gregor. HorstI D. Dissertationes medicae tres, De natura amoris, De natura thermarum, De causis similitudinis et dissimilitudinis in foetu, respectu parentum : antehac in Academia Gissensi propositae et discussae, quibus annexae sunt resolutiones illustrium quarundam quaestionum medicarum.

    Horst, Gregor, 1578-1636. | Date: M. DC. XXVII
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    The attitude and positions, natural and preternatural, of the fœtus in utero, acts of the reflex or excito-motory system / by J. Y. Simpson.

    Simpson, James Young, 1811-1870. | Date: 1849
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    The uterus, a foetus, the hymen and female genitals, after Haller, Kulm and Huber. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.

    | Reference: 35218i
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