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William Smoult Playfair. Wood engraving.

Joseph Lister giving thanks for a testimonial and portrait presented to him at King's College Hospital, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1895. Process print after A.S. Boyd, 1895.

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

William Smoult Playfair. Photograph by A. C. Cooper.

The systematic treatment of nerve prostration and hysteria.

A treatise on the science and practice of midwifery / By W. S. Playfair.

The oration in commemoration of the ninety-first anniversary of the Medical Society of London : delivered at Willis's Rooms, St. James's, on March 8, 1864 / by J.L.W. Thudichum.

A handbook of obstetric operations.

A treatise on the science and practice of midwifery / by W.S. Playfair.

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William Smoult Playfair

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Images featuring William Smoult Playfair

Works from the collections

The systematic treatment of nerve prostration and hysteria.

A treatise on the science and practice of midwifery / By W. S. Playfair.

The oration in commemoration of the ninety-first anniversary of the Medical Society of London : delivered at Willis's Rooms, St. James's, on March 8, 1864 / by J.L.W. Thudichum.

A handbook of obstetric operations.

A treatise on the science and practice of midwifery / by W.S. Playfair.

Frequent collaborators

William Smoult Playfair

Images from the collections

Images featuring William Smoult Playfair

Works from the collections

The systematic treatment of nerve prostration and hysteria.

A treatise on the science and practice of midwifery / By W. S. Playfair.

The oration in commemoration of the ninety-first anniversary of the Medical Society of London : delivered at Willis's Rooms, St. James's, on March 8, 1864 / by J.L.W. Thudichum.

A handbook of obstetric operations.

A treatise on the science and practice of midwifery / by W.S. Playfair.

Frequent collaborators

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