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Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford: figures strolling along the footpath. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1834, after F. Mackenzie.

I think we ought to consider an epidural.

A father holding his swaddled new born baby.

Sibah.

Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford: the doorway of the maternity home at night. Process print, 1929.

A woman in labour lying on her side recieving an epidural.

A caesarean section in progress.

A woman in labour lying on her side being given an epidural.

Can you remember all your breathing?.

A sermon preached before the governors of the Radcliffe Infirmary at St. Mary's Church in Oxford on Wednesday, July 3, 1771 / by the Right Reverend Robert Lord Bishop of Oxford ... ; to which is annexed an account of the establishment of the infirmary.

Report of the Committee appointed May 17, 1866, to consider and report upon the proposed erection of fever wards.

Report of the building committee, presented to His Grace The Duke of Marlborough, President, on the opening of the south-wing, November 21, 1863.

Oxford medicine : essays on the evolution of the Oxford Clinical School to commemorate the bicentary [i.e. bicentenary] of the Radcliffe Infirmary, 1770-1970 / edited by Kenneth Dewhurst.

Minutes of proceedings relative to a proposal for establishing a lunatick asylum in the vicinity of Oxford : by voluntary contributions / under the sanction and direction of the Governors of the Radcliffe Infirmary.

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A sermon preached before the governors of the Radcliffe Infirmary at St. Mary's Church in Oxford on Wednesday, July 3, 1771 / by the Right Reverend Robert Lord Bishop of Oxford ... ; to which is annexed an account of the establishment of the infirmary.

Report of the Committee appointed May 17, 1866, to consider and report upon the proposed erection of fever wards.

Report of the building committee, presented to His Grace The Duke of Marlborough, President, on the opening of the south-wing, November 21, 1863.

Oxford medicine : essays on the evolution of the Oxford Clinical School to commemorate the bicentary [i.e. bicentenary] of the Radcliffe Infirmary, 1770-1970 / edited by Kenneth Dewhurst.

Minutes of proceedings relative to a proposal for establishing a lunatick asylum in the vicinity of Oxford : by voluntary contributions / under the sanction and direction of the Governors of the Radcliffe Infirmary.