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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.

I. Sever. Pinaei De integritatis & corruptionis virginum notis : graviditate item & partu naturali mulierum, opuscula. II. Ludov. Bonacioli Enneas muliebris. III. Fel. Plateri De origine partium, earumque in utero conformatione. IV. Petri Gassendi De septo cordis pervio, observatio. V. Melchioris Sebizii De notis virginitatis.

Commentaries on some of the more important of the diseases of females, in three parts / by Marshall Hall.

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

A baroque monument decorated with Apollo holding a lyre and Aesculapius holding a book and a cockerel; a portrait of Johann Freitag the Younger in a roundel on the pediment. Engraving, 1644.

The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.

The principles of midwifery; including the diseases of women and children / By John Burns, lecturer on midwifery and member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow.

Die Krankheiten des weiblichen Körpers : in ihren Wechselbeziehungen zu den Geschlechtsfunctionen : in 23 Voträgen / dargestellt von P. Müller.

Diseases of women / by ten teachers ; under the direction of Clifford White ; edited by Sir Comyns Berkeley, Clifford White, Frank Cook.

Lectures on diseases of the nervous system, especially in women / by S. Weir Mitchell.

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Women - Diseases

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The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.

The principles of midwifery; including the diseases of women and children / By John Burns, lecturer on midwifery and member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow.

Die Krankheiten des weiblichen Körpers : in ihren Wechselbeziehungen zu den Geschlechtsfunctionen : in 23 Voträgen / dargestellt von P. Müller.

Diseases of women / by ten teachers ; under the direction of Clifford White ; edited by Sir Comyns Berkeley, Clifford White, Frank Cook.

Lectures on diseases of the nervous system, especially in women / by S. Weir Mitchell.

Women - Diseases

Images from the collections

Images about Women - Diseases

Works from the collections

The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.

The principles of midwifery; including the diseases of women and children / By John Burns, lecturer on midwifery and member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow.

Die Krankheiten des weiblichen Körpers : in ihren Wechselbeziehungen zu den Geschlechtsfunctionen : in 23 Voträgen / dargestellt von P. Müller.

Diseases of women / by ten teachers ; under the direction of Clifford White ; edited by Sir Comyns Berkeley, Clifford White, Frank Cook.

Lectures on diseases of the nervous system, especially in women / by S. Weir Mitchell.

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