M0017278: Illustration of an obstetrical stool or chair, 1671

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Obstetrical stool or chair, from Speculum matricis, 1671

Illustration from Wolveridge, James: Speculum matricis : or, The expert midwives handmaid, London : Printed by E. Okes, to be sold by Rowland Reynolds, 1671

March 1959

1 photograph sheet film negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/A/53412

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 2022.

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