[Child birth]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Two images of childbirth: plate 23 (left) shows child in womb with umbilical cord and plate 24 (right) shows forceps being used to deliver child.
Illus. in: An abridgement of the practice of midwifery : and a set of anatomical tables with explanations / collected from the works of the celebrated, W[illiam] Smellie, M.D. Boston : J. Norman, [1786], plates 23 and 24.
Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 104.