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Infants - Health and hygiene

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Health and hygiene

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Images about Infants - Health and hygiene

15 images from works
  • Advice to expectant mothers on healthy practices during pregnancy and at the birth. Colour lithograph after O. Gri︠u︡n, 1925.
  • A man administers an enema to a baby. Reproduction of a painting by J.A. Garemyn, 1778.
  • Childhood mortality: interior of a nursery with eight babies, watched by Death who opens the window from outside and reveals an industrial cityscape. Colour lithograph by Alice Dick Dumas.
  • Advice to mothers on healthy treatment of infants: cleanliness and warmth. Colour lithograph by A.A. Ioffa, ca. 1925.
  • Advice to mothers on causes of child mortality. Colour lithograph by O. Gri︠u︡n, 1925.
  • A toddler in a walking frame is kicking bottles of sedatives, representing the preference for clean bottle-feeding over pharmaceutical sedatives for infants. Colour process print after F. Poulbot.
  • A man administers an enema to a baby. Reproduction of a painting by J.A. Garemyn, 1778.
  • A father dips his displeased child into water from the new Artesian well in Grenelle; he emerges covered in filth. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1841.
  • Advice to expectant mothers on healthy practices during pregnancy and at the birth. Colour lithograph after O. Gri︠u︡n, 1925.
  • A young woman shows a shepherd a basket with a baby and lambs in it. Engraving by P. de Colle after F. Londonio.

Works from the collections

113 works

    • Books
    • Online

    Baby's first month : hints to fathers and mothers / by F. Truby King.

    King, Truby, 1858-1938. | Date: 1913
    • Books

    The Glaxo baby book.

    | Date: [192-?]
    • Books

    Chavasse's advice to a mother : on the management of her children and on the treatment of some of their illnesses and accidents.

    Chavasse, Pye Henry, 1810-1879 | Date: [1925]
    • Books

    Mothercraft / by Mary Truby King.

    King, Mary Truby. | Date: 1939
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    A nurse holding healthy twin babies. Colour lithograph after L. Tarasova, 1983.

    Tarasova, Li︠u︡dmila Semenovna, 1937- | Date: 1983 | Reference: 668772i

Related topics

Infants - Care
Infant Care
Child care
Neonatal Nursing
Child Care
Child Rearing
Infants - Nutrition
Infant Mortality
Parenting
Infant

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