French Guiana: a woman about to deliver a baby receiving a vapour bath. Coloured photograph, ca. 1913.

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1900-1999
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677845i
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1900-1999

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1 print : photomechanical print, hand-coloured with gouache ; sheet 19.7 x 29.5 cm

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'Vapour bath'. Used for lying-in women by the Rucuyenns. Guiana, South America.

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Photographed from a German book (Die Medicin der Naturvölker : Ethnologische Beiträge zur Urgeschichte der Medicin by Dr Max Bartels) and coloured for use as an exhibit in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 19--

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Wellcome Collection 677845i

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