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Concept

Obstetrics

Images

  • 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.
  • The birth of mankynde : otherwyse named the womans booke. / Newly set forth, corrected, and augmented. Whose contentes ye may reade in the table of the booke, and most playnely in the prologue. By Thomas Raynalde phisition.
  • 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.
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Catalogue

    • Books
    • Online

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

    Dewees, William P. (William Potts), 1768-1841. | Date: 1824
    • Books

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

    Simpson, James Young, 1811-1870. | Date: 1855-1856
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Notes on lectures by Charles Mansfield Clarke (1782-1857) on midwifery and the diseases of women and children

    | Date: 1815 | Reference: MS.5605
    Part of: Hunterian Society of London
    • Pictures
    • Online

    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.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: 1 August 1816 | Reference: 12212i
    • Books

    Obstetrícia operatória / pelo Professor Raul Briquet.

    Briquet, Raul. | Date: 1932
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