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Early modern English noblewomen and self-starvation : the skull beneath the skin / Sasha Garwood.

Text to accompany illustration of a birthing chair

Plate 1. An "easy chair" for pregnant and lying-in women

Medical and chirurgical observations, as an appendix to a former publication / by Benjamin Gooch.

On the constitutional and local effects of disease of the supra-renal capsules / by Thomas Addison.

Cases of mental disease, with practical observations on medical treatment. For the use of students / by Alexander Morison.

Essays on the diseases of children with cases and dissections. Vol. I. Containing: Essay 1, Of cynanche trachealis, or croup; Essay 2, Of the bowel complaints / By John Cheyne.

Nouvelles observations sur la pratique des accouchemens. Avec la maniere de se servir d'une nouvelle machine, tres-commode & facile, pour tirer promptement & surement, la tête de l'enfant, separée de son corps, & restée seule dans la matrice, sans se servir d'aucuns instrumens trenchans, ou piquans, qui puissent exposer la mere à aucun danger ... / [Pierre Amand].

Biographieen Geisteskranker in ihrer psychologischen Entwickelung / Dargestellt von Karl Wilhelm Ideler.

Inside the asylum / by John Vincent ; with an introduction by Vera Brittain.

The lived experience in mental health / Gary Morris.

Second memoir on excision of the knee-joint : to which is appended a remarkable example of the power of operative surgery in saving the same articulation / by Richard G.H. Butcher.

The traditional birth attendant in seven countries : case studies in utilization and training / edited by A. Mangay-Maglacas and H. Pizurki.

Some sequels in throat surgery / by G. Hunter Mackenzie.

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Inside the asylum / by John Vincent ; with an introduction by Vera Brittain.

The lived experience in mental health / Gary Morris.

Second memoir on excision of the knee-joint : to which is appended a remarkable example of the power of operative surgery in saving the same articulation / by Richard G.H. Butcher.

The traditional birth attendant in seven countries : case studies in utilization and training / edited by A. Mangay-Maglacas and H. Pizurki.

Some sequels in throat surgery / by G. Hunter Mackenzie.