A jolly surgeon picks up a newly-delivered baby and asks for its ticket of arrival. Colour process print after by D.E. Galanis, c. 1910.

A obstetrician dressed in a grand manner, wearing a sword and carrying a tall cane. Etching, 1773.

A "man-midwife" (male obstetrician) represented by a figure divided in half, one half representing a man and the other a woman. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1793.

William Pitt the younger as an obstetrician and medicine vendor, accompanied by Henry Dundas as his assistant, disputing with Napoleon Bonaparte their respective medicinal remedies for the delivery of Europe. Etching after C. Ansell (?), 1800.

Fifth International Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, St Petersburg, 1910. Photograph.

Man-midwives attempting to deliver a monstrous woman representing the Dutch National Convention. Etching attributed to James Gillray, 1796, after David Hess.

A foppish obstetrician with forceps in his pocket. Etching, 1772.

Anyway... : Sergio Leon : vrouwenarts en eilandskind / Jeannette van Ditzhuijzen.

Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries.

xiv, 117 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Richard Wesley TeLinde / Howard W. Jones, Jr., Georgeanna Seegar Jones, William E. Ticknor.

1 print : colour line block ; image and border 34 x 28.5 cm

Adolphe Thiers as an obstetrician examining a pregnant woman representing France. Colour line block after A. Gill, 1872.

Sir Norman Jeffcoate.

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Anyway... : Sergio Leon : vrouwenarts en eilandskind / Jeannette van Ditzhuijzen.

Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries.

Richard Wesley TeLinde / Howard W. Jones, Jr., Georgeanna Seegar Jones, William E. Ticknor.

Adolphe Thiers as an obstetrician examining a pregnant woman representing France. Colour line block after A. Gill, 1872.

Sir Norman Jeffcoate.

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Anyway... : Sergio Leon : vrouwenarts en eilandskind / Jeannette van Ditzhuijzen.

Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries.

Richard Wesley TeLinde / Howard W. Jones, Jr., Georgeanna Seegar Jones, William E. Ticknor.

Adolphe Thiers as an obstetrician examining a pregnant woman representing France. Colour line block after A. Gill, 1872.

Sir Norman Jeffcoate.

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