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Theory and practice of midwifery, illustrated with appropriate plates : also, third edition, (improved), of Remarks on the present manner of treating new-born infants. with, A description of the tubes, in which oxygen-gas, or vital-air, passes through the lungs to the blood / by George Chartres.
Chartres, George.Date: 1816
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The birth of a baby. Oil painting after (?) Lambert Sustris.
Sustris, Lambert, approximately 1515-approximately 1568.Reference: 44695i
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Dutch lying-in room, child being fed with pap, by Troost.
Cornelis Troost
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M0012851: Frontispiece to Recueil complet de pieces curieuses?, 1759
Date: March 1953
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Birth of the Virgin by Andrea Pisano, Bronze relief
Andrea Pisano
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Ten diagrams illustrating various methods of delivering a baby using forceps. Etching, 1791.
Date: 10 June 1791Reference: 17077i
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A new-born child being given its first bath. Engraving, 1800.
Date: 1 June 1800Reference: 17391i
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Five diagrams illustrating the birth of a child with the use of forceps. Engraving by A. Bell.
Reference: 17025i
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A woman in labour lying in bed with her arm behind her head and an exhaling expression on her face with a person looking and leaning in towards her.
Spears, Heather, 1934-Date: 1987Reference: 3329263i.44
Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.
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Drawings of childbirth, Rigshospitalet, 26-27 January 1987.
Spears, Heather, 1943-Date: 26 - 27 January 1987Reference: 3329265i
Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.
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Birthday : Triumph of childbirth.
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A woman in labour lying on her side with a midwife examining her belly.
Spears, Heather, 1934-Date: 1987Reference: 3329263i.67
Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.
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Schwangerschaft Geburt und Wochenbett : Klinische Untersuchungen und Beobachtungen / Carl Schroeder.
Schroeder, Karl Ludwig Ernst, 1838-1887.Date: 1867
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A monkey (dressed as a human being) giving birth to a baby monkey aided by a midwife and two attendants. Reproduction of an engraving.
Date: [1934]Reference: 16915i
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A woman's narrow pelvis with child's head stuck in the middle of labour. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
Leopold, G. (Gerhard), 1846-1911.Date: 1908Reference: 17135i
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An exhausted woman being held by friends after just giving birth to twins. Pen drawing after G.F.M. Mazzola, il Parmigianino.
Parmigianino, 1503-1540.Reference: 16892i
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The birth of Rustam. Gouache painting.
Date: [1---]Reference: 726949i
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M0001880: Book illustration relating to childbirth
Date: 22 May 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/17/71
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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A woman in labour lying on her side.
Spears, Heather, 1934-Date: 1987Reference: 3329263i.81
Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.
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Description du forceps indicateur, ou l'instrument mousse, présentant sur ses branches, d'une manière claire et précise, un petit manuel d'accouchement anormal. / par M. Audibert.
Audibert, François.Date: 1833
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A woman giving birth aided by a surgeon who fumbles beneath a sheet to save the lady from embarassment. Wood engraving after a woodcut, 1711.
Reference: 16944i
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The new childbirth / Erna Wright ; with a foreword by Elliot E. Philipp.
Wright, ErnaDate: 1968
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The new pregnancy and childbirth / Sheila Kitzinger ; black-and -white photography by Marcia May.
Kitzinger, Sheila.Date: 1997
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Egyptian carving, dwarf demon Bes, taken 1989
Carole Reeves
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Birthday : Triumph of childbirth.
Date: 1979

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Theory and practice of midwifery, illustrated with appropriate plates : also, third edition, (improved), of Remarks on the present manner of treating new-born infants. with, A description of the tubes, in which oxygen-gas, or vital-air, passes through the lungs to the blood / by George Chartres.

The birth of a baby. Oil painting after (?) Lambert Sustris.

Dutch lying-in room, child being fed with pap, by Troost.

M0012851: Frontispiece to Recueil complet de pieces curieuses?, 1759

Birth of the Virgin by Andrea Pisano, Bronze relief

Ten diagrams illustrating various methods of delivering a baby using forceps. Etching, 1791.

A new-born child being given its first bath. Engraving, 1800.

Five diagrams illustrating the birth of a child with the use of forceps. Engraving by A. Bell.

A woman in labour lying in bed with her arm behind her head and an exhaling expression on her face with a person looking and leaning in towards her.

Drawings of childbirth, Rigshospitalet, 26-27 January 1987.

Birthday : Triumph of childbirth.

A woman in labour lying on her side with a midwife examining her belly.

Schwangerschaft Geburt und Wochenbett : Klinische Untersuchungen und Beobachtungen / Carl Schroeder.

A monkey (dressed as a human being) giving birth to a baby monkey aided by a midwife and two attendants. Reproduction of an engraving.

A woman's narrow pelvis with child's head stuck in the middle of labour. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.

An exhausted woman being held by friends after just giving birth to twins. Pen drawing after G.F.M. Mazzola, il Parmigianino.

The birth of Rustam. Gouache painting.

M0001880: Book illustration relating to childbirth

A woman in labour lying on her side.

Description du forceps indicateur, ou l'instrument mousse, présentant sur ses branches, d'une manière claire et précise, un petit manuel d'accouchement anormal. / par M. Audibert.

A woman giving birth aided by a surgeon who fumbles beneath a sheet to save the lady from embarassment. Wood engraving after a woodcut, 1711.

The new childbirth / Erna Wright ; with a foreword by Elliot E. Philipp.

The new pregnancy and childbirth / Sheila Kitzinger ; black-and -white photography by Marcia May.

Egyptian carving, dwarf demon Bes, taken 1989

Birthday : Triumph of childbirth.