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

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.

MS Japanese 25

Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 3e. tableau, Des parties molles qui ont rapport au bassin / École départementale de l'Ain.

Three interior diagrams of an adult human uterus. Etching by G. Scotin.

L'art des accouchemens, démontré par des principes de physique et de mechanique. Pour servir d'introduction & de base à des leçons particulières / Par M. André Levret.

Accoucheurs et sages-femmes célébres : esquisses biographiques / par G.-J. Witkowski.

University College Hospital, London: the Maternity Hospital and Nurses' home, Huntley Street (subesequently the Rockefeller Building). Photo-lithograph, 1923, after C. A. Farey, 1922.

Nouvelles démonstrations d'accouchemens / Avec des planches en taille-douce, accompagnées d'un texte raisonné propre à en faciliter l'explication par J.P. Maygrier.

The principles and practice of obstetric medicine / Carefully revised & corr., with ... additions and notes by Alexander Cooper Lee and Nathaniel Rogers.

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

2 volumes (xv, 857; xii, 819 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm

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

1 volume 1 volume: 230 × 190 mm., 265 ff.

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.

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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.

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