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Fetus - Abnormalities

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  • A female foetus of six inches in length with over-developed genitals. Engraving by J. Daullé after J. de Sève, 1749.
  • A child born with the viscera reversed. Engraving, 1749.
  • Three figures of foetuses with hermaphroditic genitals. Engraving by J. Daullé after J. de Sève, 1749.
  • Seven figures illustrating different types of anatomical specimen jars and their lids and methods of preservation used by Réaumur, Le Cat, and others. Engraving, 1749.
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Catalogue

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    Imperfect pregnancies : a history of birth defects and prenatal diagnosis / Ilana Löwy.

    Löwy, Ilana, 1948- | Date: [2017]
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    Theodori Hoogeveen, Medcinae Doctoris, nec non Lectoris Anatomes, Chirurgiae et Artis Obstetricandi, Tractatus de foetus humani morbis : cui accedit observationum anatomicarum fasciculus.

    Hoogeveen, Theodorus, 1745-1787. | Date: MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
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    Case of a fœtus found in the abdomen of a young man, at Sherborne, in Dorsetshire / by Nathaniel Highmore, surgeon.

    Highmore, Nathaniel, 1761- | Date: 1815
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    Hermaphroditic malformation of the external genital organs in the female, with remarks upon the so-called "transverse hermaphroditism" / by John Yule Mackay.

    Mackay, John Yule, 1860-1930. | Date: [1886]
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    A child born with the viscera reversed. Engraving, 1749.

    | Date: [1749] | Reference: 34178i
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