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  • An injected arterial vessel system of a 9 month old foetus. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • An injected arterial vessel system of a 9 month old foetus. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • An injected arterial vessel system of a 9 month old foetus. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • A pregnant woman crying as a saw cuts her newborn foetus in half: preventing abortion in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Family Planning Association of Kenya, ca. 2000.
  • An injected arterial vessel system of a 9 month old foetus. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • 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; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Fernando Arias, ca. 1995.
  • Foetal skeletons: front and side views, with two details showing skulls. Etching by or after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • A female foetus of six inches in length with over-developed genitals. Engraving by J. Daullé after J. de Sève, 1749.
  • Human foetuses in the museum of Frederik Ruysch. Engraving by C. Huyberts, ca. 1709.
  • A child born with the viscera reversed. Engraving, 1749.
  • Foetal skeletons: six figures. Etching by Martin after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • Human foetuses in the museum of Frederik Ruysch. Engraving by C. Huyberts, ca. 1709.
  • Foetus, uterus and placenta: three figures demonstrating the nourishment of the foetus in utero. Line engraving, ca. 1791.
  • Foetuses in utero: six figures showing cross-sections of foetuses in various positions in the uterus prior to and during birth. Line engraving by W. Taylor, 1791, after F. Birnie after Smellie.
  • An abnormal foetus in the womb, which is about to be naturally aborted. Engraving.
  • Three figures of foetuses with hermaphroditic genitals. Engraving by J. Daullé after J. de Sève, 1749.
  • 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 skeletons of two foetuses, two and five months old, demonstrating the development of ossification. Engraving, 1686.
  • The base of the skull and foetal skeletons of different ages. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
  • Tractatus quinque medico-physici / Quorum primus agit de sal-nitro et spiritu nitro-aereo. Secundus de respiratione. Tertius de respiratione foetus in utero, et ovo. Quartus de motu musculari, et spiritibus animalis. Ultimus de rhachitide [sic].
  • Tractatus quinque medico-physici / Quorum primus agit de sal-nitro et spiritu nitro-aereo. Secundus de respiratione. Tertius de respiratione foetus in utero, et ovo. Quartus de motu musculari, et spiritibus animalis. Ultimus de rhachitide [sic].
  • Dissected foetus seen from the front, with arteries indicated. Line engraving, by G. Wooding after F. Birnie, 1790.
  • The uterus, a foetus, the hymen and female genitals, after Haller, Kulm and Huber. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
  • Tractatus quinque medico-physici / Quorum primus agit de sal-nitro et spiritu nitro-aereo. Secundus de respiratione. Tertius de respiratione foetus in utero, et ovo. Quartus de motu musculari, et spiritibus animalis. Ultimus de rhachitide [sic].
  • Dissected foetus seen from behind, with arteries and muscles indicated. Line engraving, by G. Wooding after F. Birnie, 1790.
  • Tractatus quinque medico-physici / Quorum primus agit de sal-nitro et spiritu nitro-aereo. Secundus de respiratione. Tertius de respiratione foetus in utero, et ovo. Quartus de motu musculari, et spiritibus animalis. Ultimus de rhachitide [sic].
  • The arterial system of human foetus. Engraving, 1686, after Gérard de Lairesse, 1685.
  • A bourgeois wife shows her husband the preserved foetus of her cousin. Wood engraving by F. Rouget after S.G.C. Gavarni.
  • Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 9e. tableau, Des secondines ou arriere-faix / École départementale de l'Ain.
  • Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 8e. tableau, Du foetus et de ses dépendences / École départementale de l'Ain.