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Obstetricians

Images

  • 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.
  • 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.
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Catalogue

    • Books

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

    Alport, Hugh. | Date: 2007
    • Books

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

    Ditzhuijzen, Jeannette van | Date: [2015]
    • Books

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

    Jones, Howard W., Jr. (Howard Wilbur), 1910-2015. | Date: [1986], ©1986
    • Pictures

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

    Gill, André, 1840-1885 | Date: 28 juillet 1872 | Reference: 657722i
    • Books

    Sir Norman Jeffcoate.

    | Date: 1992
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