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  • M0007182: Manuscript illustration of the first caesarean section operation
  • Caesarean section, Uganda: the patient being prepared for the operation; the sutured wound; the knife used. Ink drawing by S.W. Kelly, 1938, after R.W. Felkin, ca. 1884.
  • The birth of a baby by caesarian section. Gouache painting.
  • A baby being removed from its dying mother's womb via Caesarean section. Reproduction of woodcut, 1483.
  • A baby being removed from its dying mother's womb via Caesarean section. Reproduction of woodcut, 1483.
  • The birth of Rustam. Gouache painting.
  • A surgeon performing a Caesarean operation on an agonized woman who had apparently been carrying a dead baby in her womb for five years. Reproduction, 1933, of a woodcut, 1560.
  • A further statement of the case of Elizabeth Thompson : upon whom the Caesarean operation was performed in the Manchester Lying-In Hospital : in addition to that published by Mr. Wood, in the Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, vol. 5th / By Charles White, and Richard Hall, ... and George Tomlinson, and John Thorp.
  • A further statement of the case of Elizabeth Thompson : upon whom the Caesarean operation was performed in the Manchester Lying-In Hospital : in addition to that published by Mr. Wood, in the Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, vol. 5th / By Charles White, and Richard Hall, ... and George Tomlinson, and John Thorp.
  • A further statement of the case of Elizabeth Thompson : upon whom the Caesarean operation was performed in the Manchester Lying-In Hospital : in addition to that published by Mr. Wood, in the Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, vol. 5th / By Charles White, and Richard Hall, ... and George Tomlinson, and John Thorp.
  • A further statement of the case of Elizabeth Thompson : upon whom the Caesarean operation was performed in the Manchester Lying-In Hospital : in addition to that published by Mr. Wood, in the Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, vol. 5th / By Charles White, and Richard Hall, ... and George Tomlinson, and John Thorp.
  • A further statement of the case of Elizabeth Thompson : upon whom the Caesarean operation was performed in the Manchester Lying-In Hospital : in addition to that published by Mr. Wood, in the Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, vol. 5th / By Charles White, and Richard Hall, ... and George Tomlinson, and John Thorp.
  • A further statement of the case of Elizabeth Thompson : upon whom the Caesarean operation was performed in the Manchester Lying-In Hospital : in addition to that published by Mr. Wood, in the Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, vol. 5th / By Charles White, and Richard Hall, ... and George Tomlinson, and John Thorp.
  • Man-midwives attempting to deliver a monstrous woman representing the Dutch National Convention. Etching attributed to James Gillray, 1796, after David Hess.
  • A further statement of the case of Elizabeth Thompson : upon whom the Caesarean operation was performed in the Manchester Lying-In Hospital : in addition to that published by Mr. Wood, in the Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, vol. 5th / By Charles White, and Richard Hall, ... and George Tomlinson, and John Thorp.
  • A further statement of the case of Elizabeth Thompson : upon whom the Caesarean operation was performed in the Manchester Lying-In Hospital : in addition to that published by Mr. Wood, in the Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, vol. 5th / By Charles White, and Richard Hall, ... and George Tomlinson, and John Thorp.
  • A caesarean section in progress.
  • The birth of the Antichrist from a dying woman via a Caesarean operation. Reproduction, 1933, of a woodcut, 1475.
  • The birth of Julius Caesar from his dead mother. Reproduction, 1933, of a woodcut, 1506.