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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.

Doctor! Doctor! : tales of an Irish practice / Hugh and Alice Alport.

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

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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Obstetricians

Images from the collections

Images about Obstetricians

Works from the collections

Doctor! Doctor! : tales of an Irish practice / Hugh and Alice Alport.

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

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.

Obstetricians

Images from the collections

Images about Obstetricians

Works from the collections

Doctor! Doctor! : tales of an Irish practice / Hugh and Alice Alport.

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

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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