M0005499: "A man-mid-wife", from Fores: Man-midwifery dissected, 1793

Illustration of a male midwife shown as the left side of a man and the right side of a woman. Printed as the frontispiece to Fores, Samuel William: Man-midwifery dissected ; or, the obstetric family-instructor, London, 1793

2 August 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/B/22919/1

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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