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Plate XX. Figure. Suite Des Accouchemens.

Annular and pear-shaped pessaries made of cork and covered with wax; and other surgical instruments used in childbirth.

The hermaphrodite (a person both male and female) was designed for the decoration of the Hall of Constantine at the Vatican. The yoke on the shoulders refers to the motto of Pope Leo X, who commissioned the work: ‘For my yoke is easy and my burden is…

Anatomical study of the female reproductive system and kidneys, Pieter van Gunst, after Gerard de Lairesse

Sheet from a book about the working of the female genitals, with letterpress on the reverse. Tabula XXIV.

Statue of a hermaphrodite. He keeps his clothes up. On the base the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection at the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome.

Hermaphrodite twins joined at the back, born at Rorbach near Heidelberg, 1486.

Image from
Chapter VI: 'De organis speciei propagandae'

Engraving of nude male and female figures with snake and skull.

The Ranters were one of a number of nonconformist dissenting groups.

Image shows a woman with exxecissive hair, completely covering her body and an infant boy made black by his parents imagination.

A physician at work behind a table with bottles, beside him and behind him.