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Concept

Obstetricians

Images

  • A obstetrician dressed in a grand manner, wearing a sword and carrying a tall cane. Etching, 1773.
  • A "man-midwife" (male obstetrician) represented by a figure divided in half, one half representing a man and the other a woman. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1793.
  • William Pitt the younger as an obstetrician and medicine vendor, accompanied by Henry Dundas as his assistant, disputing with Napoleon Bonaparte their respective medicinal remedies for the delivery of Europe. Etching after C. Ansell (?), 1800.
  • William Pitt the younger as an obstetrician and medicine vendor, accompanied by Henry Dundas as his assistant, disputing with Napoleon Bonaparte their respective medicinal remedies for the delivery of Europe. Etching after C. Ansell (?), 1800.
  • Fifth International Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, St Petersburg, 1910. Photograph.
  • Man-midwives attempting to deliver a monstrous woman representing the Dutch National Convention. Etching attributed to James Gillray, 1796, after David Hess.
  • Fifth International Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, St Petersburg, 1910. Photograph.
  • A foppish obstetrician with forceps in his pocket. Etching, 1772.
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

    Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (1827-1912), and the Lister family

    Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912 | Date: 1737-1967 | Reference: MSS.3298-3303, 6178-6200, 6961-6989 and 8770
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0013627: Portrait of Pierre Budin (1846-1907)

    | Date: July 1954
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

    | Date: 1804-1946 | Reference: MS.7780
    • Books

    Anyway... : Sergio Leon : vrouwenarts en eilandskind / Jeannette van Ditzhuijzen.

    Ditzhuijzen, Jeannette van | Date: [2015]
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Miscellany: German, 19th-20th centuries

    | Date: 1823-1925 | Reference: MS.7424
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