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  • A skeleton of a new born child with deformed hips who died of asphyxia in birth. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.

    • Leopold, G. (Gerhard), 1846-1911
    Date
    1908
    Reference
    17140i
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  • Specimen obstetricium de partu difficili : capite infantis praevio ... / ex auctoritate magnifici rectoris D. Friderici Bernardi Albini ... publico & solenni examini submittit Joannes Tak, ... Ad diem VI. Februarii M.D.CC.LV.

    • Tak, Joannes.
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    [1755]
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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
    1908
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    17135i
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  • Cours théorique et pratique d'accouchemens : dans lequel on expose les principes de cette branche de l'art, les soins que la femme exige pendant et après le travail, ainsi que les elémens de l'education physique et morale de l'enfant / par J. Capuron.

    • Capuron, Joseph, 1767-1850
    Date
    1811
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  • Introduction to the practice of midwifery. Part the fisrt [sic] / By Thomas Denman.

    • Denman, Thomas, 1733-1815
    Date
    1782
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  • A woman's pelvis after a pubiotomy - to widen the birth canal for a vaginal delivery of a baby - previous two babies died. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.

    • Leopold, G. (Gerhard), 1846-1911
    Date
    1908
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    17133i
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  • Case of delivery, without operative aid, through a pelvis extremely deformed by malacosteon / by J.Y. Simpson.

    • Simpson, James Young, 1811-1870
    Date
    1847
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  • Records of obstetric consultation practice ; and a translation of Busch & Moser on uterine haemorrhage, with notes and cases.

    • Copeman, Edward, 1809-1880
    Date
    1856
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  • 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.

    Date
    [1791]
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    17089i
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  • Notes on midwifery / by J.M. Munro Kerr.

    • Munro Kerr, J. M. (John Martin), 1868-1956
    Date
    1911
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