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Labor (Obstetrics) - Complications

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  • A woman's pelvis after a pubiotomy - to widen the birth canal for a vaginal delivery of a baby - previous two babies died. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • Four diagrams of babies in the womb. Engraving by W. Taylor, 1791, after F. Birnie after W. Smellie.
  • A skeleton of a new born child with deformed hips who died of asphyxia in birth. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • A woman's pelvis after a pubiotomy - to widen the birth canal for a vaginal delivery of a baby. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • Four diagrams illustrating difficult births. Engraving by A. Bell.
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    A skeleton of a new born child with deformed hips who died of asphyxia in birth. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.

    Leopold, G. (Gerhard), 1846-1911. | Date: 1908 | Reference: 17140i
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    Specimen obstetricium de partu difficili : capite infantis praevio ... / ex auctoritate magnifici rectoris D. Friderici Bernardi Albini ... publico & solenni examini submittit Joannes Tak, ... Ad diem VI. Februarii M.D.CC.LV.

    Tak, Joannes. | Date: [1755]
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    A woman's narrow pelvis with child's head stuck in the middle of labour. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.

    Leopold, G. (Gerhard), 1846-1911. | Date: 1908 | Reference: 17135i
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    Cours théorique et pratique d'accouchemens : dans lequel on expose les principes de cette branche de l'art, les soins que la femme exige pendant et après le travail, ainsi que les elémens de l'education physique et morale de l'enfant / par J. Capuron.

    Capuron, Joseph, 1767-1850. | Date: 1811
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    Introduction to the practice of midwifery. Part the fisrt [sic] / By Thomas Denman.

    Denman, Thomas, 1733-1815. | Date: 1782
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