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A Maasai mother with a child; representing support for the healthcare work of Memisa among the Maasai. Colour lithograph for Memisa, ca. 2000.

Joseph Millot Severn, a British phrenologist, examining a boy. Colour process print, c. 1929.

Toddlers and children queuing up to see the doctor. Process print after A. Dick Dumas, ca. 1920.

Children at play in the East London Hospital for Children. Wood engraving by J. Swain after G.W. Ridley, 1872.

Children walking up a grassy knoll in the open air, taking healthy exercise. Colour lithograph after F. L. Mora. 1918.

Children going to a clinic for a health check to prevent the advance of disease. Colour lithograph by Alice Dick Dumas, ca. 1917.

A man washing a child's bottom, in the background an old hag shouts at him. Line engraving.

A healthy boy, protected from tuberculosis by fresh air and exercise. Colour lithograph by André Wilquin, 1942.

A woman representing knowledge examining a sick child. Lithograph by G. Tyr after A.J.V. Orsel.

Convalescent home for children, St. Leonards: perspective view. Wood engraving, 1881.

A woman wearing spectacles picking fleas from a child's head. Etching by J. Miel.

Eugen und der freche Wicht : eine Geschichte / von Anna Sommer und Michael Grotzer.

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

Selected articles from the Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.

Report on the physical development of European school children in Kenya / by D. Harvey.

Mental health through education / by W. Carson Ryan.

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Neonatal Nursing

Images from the collections

Images referencing Neonatal Nursing

Works from the collections

Eugen und der freche Wicht : eine Geschichte / von Anna Sommer und Michael Grotzer.

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

Selected articles from the Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.

Report on the physical development of European school children in Kenya / by D. Harvey.

Mental health through education / by W. Carson Ryan.

Neonatal Nursing

Images from the collections

Images referencing Neonatal Nursing

Works from the collections

Eugen und der freche Wicht : eine Geschichte / von Anna Sommer und Michael Grotzer.

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

Selected articles from the Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.

Report on the physical development of European school children in Kenya / by D. Harvey.

Mental health through education / by W. Carson Ryan.

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