Surgical procedure in which a baby is delivered through a mother's abdomen

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M0013876: The birth of the Julius Caesar by caesarian section

A further statement of the case of Elizabeth Thompson : upon whom the Caesarean operation was performed in the Manchester Lying-In Hospital : in addition to that published by Mr. Wood, in the Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, vol. 5th / By Charles White, and Richard Hall, ... and George Tomlinson, and John Thorp.

A surgeon performing a Caesarean operation on an agonized woman who had apparently been carrying a dead baby in her womb for five years. Reproduction, 1933, of a woodcut, 1560.

Caesarean section, Uganda: the patient being prepared for the operation; the sutured wound; the knife used. Ink drawing by S.W. Kelly, 1938, after R.W. Felkin, ca. 1884.

The birth of Julius Caesar from his dead mother. Reproduction, 1933, of a woodcut, 1506.

The birth of a baby by caesarian section. Gouache painting.

A baby being removed from its dying mother's womb via Caesarean section. Reproduction of woodcut, 1483.

A caesarean section in progress.

De Sectione caesarea in clinico obstetricio Bonnensi nuper instituta : dissertatio inauguralis ... / publice defendet Carol. August. Winkler ; opponentibus Bechen, Schaefer, Schervier.

Considérations sur la technique de l'opération césarienne conservatrice pratiquée à l'ancienne mode / [A Couvelaire].

Sacra embryologia : sive de officio sacerdotum, medicorum et aliorum circa aeternam parvulorum in utero existentium salutem, libri quatuor; / auctore ac interprete Franc: Emmanuele Cangiamila.

Baby boom : the explosive ending of Al's baby!.

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Cesarean Section

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A caesarean section in progress.

De Sectione caesarea in clinico obstetricio Bonnensi nuper instituta : dissertatio inauguralis ... / publice defendet Carol. August. Winkler ; opponentibus Bechen, Schaefer, Schervier.

Considérations sur la technique de l'opération césarienne conservatrice pratiquée à l'ancienne mode / [A Couvelaire].

Sacra embryologia : sive de officio sacerdotum, medicorum et aliorum circa aeternam parvulorum in utero existentium salutem, libri quatuor; / auctore ac interprete Franc: Emmanuele Cangiamila.

Baby boom : the explosive ending of Al's baby!.

Cesarean Section

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Images referencing Cesarean Section

Works from the collections

A caesarean section in progress.

De Sectione caesarea in clinico obstetricio Bonnensi nuper instituta : dissertatio inauguralis ... / publice defendet Carol. August. Winkler ; opponentibus Bechen, Schaefer, Schervier.

Considérations sur la technique de l'opération césarienne conservatrice pratiquée à l'ancienne mode / [A Couvelaire].

Sacra embryologia : sive de officio sacerdotum, medicorum et aliorum circa aeternam parvulorum in utero existentium salutem, libri quatuor; / auctore ac interprete Franc: Emmanuele Cangiamila.

Baby boom : the explosive ending of Al's baby!.

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