Woman: An Historical Gynaecological and Anthropological Compendium
Woman: An Historical Gynaecological and Anthropological Compendium is the 1935 British translation of Hermann Heinrich Ploss' Das weib in der natur- und völkerkunde. Anthropologische studien.
This anthropogical visual collection includes over 1,000 images. What is significant about this piece is that it contains more than the just Western obstetrics. Instead, this includes images of women in medical settings from all time periods and cultures.
Notable of these diverse images are "Sitting on the mat," a woodcut of traditional Japanese per-natal massage and the anatomical drawings of female conjoined twins known here as "double monsters."