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  • A foetus in the womb of a woman and a nurse delivering the baby below representing a warning about the dangers of passing on HIV through pregnancy by Spitnacs, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, ca 1997.
  • Two diagrams of a childs head starting to emerge from the vagina; two cross-sections of an exposed uterus and two diagrams of a single child and twins in the womb. Engraving by W. Taylor, 1791, after F. Birnie after W. Smellie.
  • The blue silhouette of a foetus in the womb of a woman; a warning to pregnant women about the dangers of passing on AIDS through pregnancy issued by the Ministry of Health & Urban Development of Belize. Colour lithograph by Stage 1 Design, ca. 1995.
  • A red and black impression of a foetus and and umbilical cord within a womb incorporating a series of orange numbers and purple paint marks; one of a series of anti-AIDS posters produced by Artis entitled 'Imágenes contra el SIDA' [Images against AIDS]. Colour lithograph by Fernando Arias, ca. 1995.
  • A naked woman with extending yellow hair with a baby in her womb illustrated with white stars and a flower; a warning to women to protect their babies from AIDS by the Oficina Para la Prevencion y Lucha Contra el Sida and Organization Panaermicana de la Salud. Colour lithograph by Marco Caamaño, 1994.
  • An Arabic man dressed in a white cloak and red headpiece holding a scroll banner showing the male and female signs, a needle about to inject into an arm, a man having a blood transmission and a fetus within the womb of a pregnant woman; an advertisement about the dangers of drugs and transmission of AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1991.
  • The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either mother or child / written in Latin by Henry à Daventer ; made English ; To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician.
  • The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either mother or child / written in Latin by Henry à Daventer ; made English ; To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician.
  • A certaine relation of the hog-faced gentlewoman called Mistris Tannakin Skinker ... borne at Wirkham ... on the river Rhyne. Who was bewitched in her mothers wombe in ... 1618 ... And can never recover her true shape, tell she be married.
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  • Pregnancy & human development
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  • Advertisement, ergot, Burroughs Wellcome, 1929
  • HPV in cervical epithelium
  • Pregnancy
  • Side view of a pregnant lady, silhouette
  • Female urogenital tract, feline
  • Canine pregnant uterus
  • Wallaby uterus
  • Early pregnant uterus, feline
  • Pregnant uterus, Red deer
  • Uterus with caruncles, bovine
  • The female reproductive and urinary systems with a tumor. Etching by J. Bell.
  • Position of a baby in the uterus, shortly before birth. Colour lithograph, 1850/1910?.
  • Four diagrams illustrating difficult births. Engraving by A. Bell.