Midwifery Illustrated

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Maygrier's 1833 Midwifery Illustrated sticks mainly to informative birth and anatomical illustrations to accompany its instructive text. But notice the image of the plate entitled "External Organs." It employs an artistic style that takes a bizarre turn. Stretched like a drying pelt between four metal nails, the female genitalia have never been so depersonalized.

The informative "History of Pregnancy" plates which illustrate the stages of pregnancy by month seem to uncover more than is necessary for the scientific point of the diagrams, covering one half of the chest while exposing the other.