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Birth (Wellcome Trust)
First anaesthetic in childbirth
1847
First child born under anaesthesia
Wellcome Library, London
Semmelweis washes hands to save life
1861
The dissecting room
Wellcome Library, London
Marie Stopes opens birth-control clinic
1921
Marie Stopes mobile birth control clinic
Wellcome Library, London
Grantly Dick Read advocates natural childbirth
1933
Father-to-be reassured by the family doctor
Wellcome Library, London
Robert James Minnit invents gas and air apparatus
1933
Midwife giving a woman gas and air
Wellcome Library, London
Prontosil reduces maternal mortality rate
1936
A new mother receives the last rites
Wellcome Library, London
In vitro
fertilization
1969
Human sperm fertilising an egg
Wellcome Photo Library
First test-tube baby
1978
Collecting eggs for IVF
Wellcome Library, London
Dolly cloned
1996
Reflections on cloning
Wellcome Library, London
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