Field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period

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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.

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

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

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

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.

Obstetrícia operatória / pelo Professor Raul Briquet.

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

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

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

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.

Obstetrícia operatória / pelo Professor Raul Briquet.