Wombs with a View Illustrations of the Gravid Uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century /

• Main Authors: Longo, Lawrence D. (Author), Reynolds, Lawrence P. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Popular works.; History.; Human physiology.; Reproductive medicine.; Medicine.; Health.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Medicine and Health.; Human Physiology.; History of Science.; Reproductive Medicine.

The volume provides an archive of some of the most beautiful illustrations ever made of the gravid uterus with fetus and placenta, which will serve future generations of investigators, educators, and students of reproduction. The approximately two hundred figures from over one hundred volumes includ...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Kent L. Thornburg, PhD
• Preface
• Introduction
• The Fetus in Utero including Twins and the Placenta (Introduction to the Renaissance / Introduction to the Seventeenth Century / Introduction to the Eighteenth Century / Introduction to the Nineteenth Century)
• Midwives and Midwifery
• Fertilization and Embryology
• Teratology: Monsters and Prodigies
• Epilogue
• Afterword by Catherine Y. Sprong
• Index.