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The apostles Peter and John heal the lame man. Process print after Raphael.

A woman representing Nature gives a baby to a mother; representing man's vulnerable and naked birth. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563.

Wonderful museum : an extraordinary child born in France in 1683.

Nesidioblastosis in the neonatal pancreas

Stomach from a neonatal dog, longitudinal section

Two mothers with crying babies and one in a walking frame; comparing the human infant's helplessness with the self-sufficiency of newborn animals. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563.

A woman lying down breast-feeding her baby. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.

Observatio anatom.-medica singularis mulieris cuiusdam calend. Januarii A*1 M.DCXLIV. tres filios naturalis magnitudinis viventes enixae. Puerpera vero retentis secundinis, extremum quasi halitum spirabat...foeliciter evasit / [Michael Rupert Besler].

Mary, Joseph, the ass and the ox genuflect before the infant Jesus; shepherds arrive behind. Aquatint with etching by C.M. Metz after Titian.

A Breton woman relaxing in a cupboard-bed after giving birth, she is surrounded by a group of Breton women and her husband. Etching.

A practical handbook of midwifery and gynæcology for students and practitioners / by W.F.T. Haultain and Clifford Kennedy ; including a section on the management of the infant and neo-natal conditions / by J.L. Henderson.

Meningeal hæmorrhage in the new-born / by G.B. Fleming and Ellen D. Morton.

Le nouveau-ne : physiologie, hygiene, allaitement; maladies les plus frequentes et leur traitement / par A. Auvard.

Babies remember birth : and other extraordinary scientific discoveries about the mind and personality of your newborn / David Chamberlain.

Breast feeding.

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Infant, Newborn

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Images referencing Infant, Newborn

Works from the collections

A practical handbook of midwifery and gynæcology for students and practitioners / by W.F.T. Haultain and Clifford Kennedy ; including a section on the management of the infant and neo-natal conditions / by J.L. Henderson.

Meningeal hæmorrhage in the new-born / by G.B. Fleming and Ellen D. Morton.

Le nouveau-ne : physiologie, hygiene, allaitement; maladies les plus frequentes et leur traitement / par A. Auvard.

Babies remember birth : and other extraordinary scientific discoveries about the mind and personality of your newborn / David Chamberlain.

Breast feeding.

Infant, Newborn

Images from the collections

Images referencing Infant, Newborn

Works from the collections

A practical handbook of midwifery and gynæcology for students and practitioners / by W.F.T. Haultain and Clifford Kennedy ; including a section on the management of the infant and neo-natal conditions / by J.L. Henderson.

Meningeal hæmorrhage in the new-born / by G.B. Fleming and Ellen D. Morton.

Le nouveau-ne : physiologie, hygiene, allaitement; maladies les plus frequentes et leur traitement / par A. Auvard.

Babies remember birth : and other extraordinary scientific discoveries about the mind and personality of your newborn / David Chamberlain.

Breast feeding.

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