A surgeon performing a Caesarean operation on an agonized woman who had apparently been carrying a dead baby in her womb for five years. Reproduction, 1933, of a woodcut, 1560.
- Date:
- [1933]
- Reference:
- 16936i
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The surgeon is cutting out sections of the dead of the dead child; some limbs are on a table next to the bed
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[Paris] : [publisher not identified], [1933]
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1 photomechanical reproduction ; image 12.6 x 9.2 cm
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Une opération césarienne. Gravure sur bois tirée des histoires prodigieuses de Boaistuau, 1560.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 16936i
Reproduction note
The original is a plate to: P. Boaistuau, Histoires prodigieuses ..., Paris 1575, Ch. XXX, p. 142
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