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  • Portrait of William Blair Bell (1871-1936). Copy of portrait at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Childbirth: sinister obstetricians and anaesthetist extract the baby from the mother. Drawing by R. Ennis, 2005.
  • Childbirth: sinister obstetricians and anaesthetist extract the baby from the mother. Drawing by R. Ennis, 2005.
  • Obstetrical forceps associated with the Chamberlens. found at Woodham Mortimer Hall, Essex. From facsimilies in the W.H.M.M. Originals in the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
  • Obstretical forceps associated with the Chamberlens. found at Woodham Mortimer Hall, Essex. From facsimilies in the W.H.M.M. Originals in the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
  • J.B. Hicks, obstetrician.
  • A foppish obstetrician with forceps in his pocket. Etching, 1772.
  • A obstetrician dressed in a grand manner, wearing a sword and carrying a tall cane. Etching, 1773.
  • A "man-midwife" (male obstetrician) represented by a figure divided in half, one half representing a man and the other a woman. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1793.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.