Field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period

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M0017667: Instruments for cutting the bones of the foetus

Das Weib in der Natur- und Völkerkunde : anthropologische Studien / von Heinrich Ploss und Max Bartels.

Focus on obstetrics in general practice : Duphalac.

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.

The birth of mankynde : otherwyse named the womans booke. / Newly set forth, corrected, and augmented. Whose contentes ye may reade in the table of the booke, and most playnely in the prologue. By Thomas Raynalde phisition.

Compendious system of midwifery : chiefly designed to facilitate the inquiries.

The obstetric memoirs and contributions of James Y. Simpson / edited by W.O. Priestley and Horatio R. Storer.

Notes on lectures by Charles Mansfield Clarke (1782-1857) on midwifery and the diseases of women and children

The Prince Regent presenting to political ministers the expected baby of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold, who urinates in their faces; representing the burden of taxation required by the Royal family. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1816.

Obstetrícia operatória / pelo Professor Raul Briquet.

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Compendious system of midwifery : chiefly designed to facilitate the inquiries.

The obstetric memoirs and contributions of James Y. Simpson / edited by W.O. Priestley and Horatio R. Storer.

Notes on lectures by Charles Mansfield Clarke (1782-1857) on midwifery and the diseases of women and children

The Prince Regent presenting to political ministers the expected baby of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold, who urinates in their faces; representing the burden of taxation required by the Royal family. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1816.

Obstetrícia operatória / pelo Professor Raul Briquet.