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Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 4e. tableau, Des parties de la femme qui servent à la génération et à l'accouchement / École départementale de l'Ain.

An abnormal foetus in the womb, which is about to be naturally aborted. Engraving.

The uterus, after Swammerdam, De Graaf and Cheselden. Etching, 1743.

Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant with seed-pods resembling the human womb, and (below) a foetus in the womb. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.

The uterus, a foetus, the hymen and female genitals, after Haller, Kulm and Huber. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.

Four diagrams of the abnormal female uterus. Engraving by Milton, 1804.

The female reproductive and urinary systems with a tumor. Etching by J. Bell.

Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 6e. tableau, Des déplacements de la matrice dans l'état de grossesse : anté-version, rétro-version, obliquité / École départementale de l'Ain.

The womb: three figures, one of the pregnant womb. Line engraving by Campbell, 1816/1821.

Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 5e. tableau, Changements de la matrice dans l'état de grossesse / École départementale de l'Ain.

Prolapsus uteri (falling of the womb) and how to cure it / by Mrs. Clara E. Slater.

Clinical measurement of uterine forces in pregnancy and labor / by S.R.M. Reynolds, Jerome S. Harris, Irwin H. Kaiser.

Retroversion and retroflexion of gravid uterus. Some points in the technique of laporotomy. A series of cases of abdominal section / by J. Halliday Croom.

Burn's obstetrical works. The anatomy of the gravid uterus; with practical inferences relative to pregnancy and labour. Observations on abortion; containing an account of the manner in which it takes place; the causes which produce it; and the method of preventing or treating it. Practical observations on the uterine hemorrhage; with remarks on the management of the placenta / By John Burns, lecturer on midwifery, and member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow. Three volumes in one.

Hepatitis, necrosis of liver, jaundice, as a result of blood transfusion; hepatic reactions etc

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Prolapsus uteri (falling of the womb) and how to cure it / by Mrs. Clara E. Slater.

Clinical measurement of uterine forces in pregnancy and labor / by S.R.M. Reynolds, Jerome S. Harris, Irwin H. Kaiser.

Retroversion and retroflexion of gravid uterus. Some points in the technique of laporotomy. A series of cases of abdominal section / by J. Halliday Croom.

Hepatitis, necrosis of liver, jaundice, as a result of blood transfusion; hepatic reactions etc