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Obstetrics

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Images

  • 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.
  • Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 3e. tableau, Des parties molles qui ont rapport au bassin / École départementale de l'Ain.
  • Three interior diagrams of an adult human uterus. Etching by G. Scotin.
  • L'art des accouchemens, démontré par des principes de physique et de mechanique. Pour servir d'introduction & de base à des leçons particulières / Par M. André Levret.
  • Focus on obstetrics in general practice : Duphalac.
  • The byrth of mankynde, newly translated out of Laten into Englysshe. : In the which is entreated of all suche thynges the which chaunce to women in theyr labor, and all suche infyrmitees whiche happen vnto the infantes after they be delyuered. And also at the latter ende o in the thyrde or last boke is entreated of the conception of mankynde, and howe manye wayes it may be letted or furtheryd, with diuers other fruytefull thynges, as doth appere in the table before the booke.
  • Surgery, gynecology & obstetrics.
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Works

  • view Compendious system of midwifery : chiefly designed to facilitate the inquiries.
    • Books
    • Online

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

    Dewees, William P. (William Potts), 1768-1841 | Date: 1824
    • Books

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

    Simpson, James Young, 1811-1870 | Date: 1855-1856
    • Archives and manuscripts

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

    | Date: 1815 | Reference: MS.5605
    Part of: Hunterian Society of London
    • Videos

    Gestation of ovum.

    | Date: 1924
    • Books

    Obstetrícia operatória / pelo Professor Raul Briquet.

    Briquet, Raul. | Date: 1932
All works (1985)

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