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Concept

Uterus

Images

  • Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 4e. tableau, Des parties de la femme qui servent à la génération et à l'accouchement / École départementale de l'Ain.
  • An abnormal foetus in the womb, which is about to be naturally aborted. Engraving.
  • The uterus, after Swammerdam, De Graaf and Cheselden. Etching, 1743.
  • Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant with seed-pods resembling the human womb, and (below) a foetus in the womb. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.
  • The uterus, a foetus, the hymen and female genitals, after Haller, Kulm and Huber. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
  • Four diagrams of the abnormal female uterus. Engraving by Milton, 1804.
  • The female reproductive and urinary systems with a tumor. Etching by J. Bell.
  • Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 6e. tableau, Des déplacements de la matrice dans l'état de grossesse : anté-version, rétro-version, obliquité / École départementale de l'Ain.
  • The womb: three figures, one of the pregnant womb. Line engraving by Campbell, 1816/1821.
  • Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 5e. tableau, Changements de la matrice dans l'état de grossesse / École départementale de l'Ain.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Prolapsus uteri (falling of the womb) and how to cure it / by Mrs. Clara E. Slater.

    Slater, Clara E., Mrs. | Date: [1921?]
    • Books

    Clinical measurement of uterine forces in pregnancy and labor / by S.R.M. Reynolds, Jerome S. Harris, Irwin H. Kaiser.

    Reynolds, S. R. M. (Samuel Robert Means), 1903- | Date: [1954]
    • Books

    Retroversion and retroflexion of gravid uterus. Some points in the technique of laporotomy. A series of cases of abdominal section / by J. Halliday Croom.

    Croom, J. Halliday (John Halliday), Sir, 1847-1923. | Date: 1890
    • Books

    Burn's obstetrical works. The anatomy of the gravid uterus; with practical inferences relative to pregnancy and labour. Observations on abortion; containing an account of the manner in which it takes place; the causes which produce it; and the method of preventing or treating it. Practical observations on the uterine hemorrhage; with remarks on the management of the placenta / By John Burns, lecturer on midwifery, and member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow. Three volumes in one.

    Burns, John, 1774-1850. | Date: 1809
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Hepatitis, necrosis of liver, jaundice, as a result of blood transfusion; hepatic reactions etc

    | Date: 1908-1949 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.147
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
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