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On some diseases of women admitting of surgical treatment / by Isaac Baker Brown ; illustrated by coloured plates and wood engravings.

Isaac Baker Brown, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine · 1854 · London : J. Churchill, 1854. · 7 pictures

A gynaecological surgery manual by London surgeon Isaac Baker Brown, issued by J. Churchill in 1854 for practising physicians and students. Tinted lithographic plates give sagittal sections of the female pelvis in chalky pink, ochre and grey, alongside wood-engraved line drawings of sounds, probes and laced abdominal supports — usable as anatomical cross-sections, instrument silhouettes and spare medical diagrams.

Women - Diseases · Gynecologic Surgical Procedures · Gynecology · Generative organs, Female - Surgery

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