"[A] new figure of Anatomy, which represents a woman chained down upon a table, suppos'd opened alive; wherein the circulation of the blood is made visible through glass veins and arteries: the circulation is also seen from the mother to the child, and from the child to the mother, with the Histolick and Diastolick motion of the hears and action of the lungs. All which particulars, with several others, will be shewn and clearly explained by [the surgeon] Mr. Chovet himself. Note, a Gentlewoman qualified will attend the ladies."

--From the London Evening Post, 27 December 1733, quoted in George C. Peachey, A Memoir of William and John Hunter (William Brendan, 1924), p. 30 and requoted in Lyle Massey, "“On Waxes and Wombs: Eighteenth-Century Representations of the Gravid Uterus,” in Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure, ed., Roberta Panzanella (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2008), p. 98.