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  Birth (Wellcome Trust)
 First anaesthetic in childbirth 1847 First child born under anaesthesia


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 Semmelweis washes hands to save life 1861 The dissecting room


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 Marie Stopes opens birth-control clinic 1921 Marie Stopes mobile birth control clinic


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 Grantly Dick Read advocates natural childbirth 1933 Father-to-be reassured by the family doctor


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 Robert James Minnit invents gas and air apparatus 1933 Midwife giving a woman gas and air


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 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


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 Dolly cloned 1996 Reflections on cloning
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