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  • Saint Gaetano in a church, holding the Bible. Colour lithograph.
  • David Livingstone memorial in Blantyre; Livingstone reading the Bible to a group of African men. Photoprint.
  • Seal of Gedaliah, Keller's The Bible as history in pictures
  • Obelisk at Heliopolis, known in the Bible as On, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1848.
  • Episodes in the Bible and examples of devotional practice. Collage of colour lithographs and process prints after Harold Copping and others.
  • Saint Geneviève seated under a Gothic canopy, holding the Bible; a lamb at her side; a church in the background. Coloured engraving, ca. 1800.
  • A young woman in distress at an altar being pressed by a cleric to read a passage of the Bible. Engraving by F. Bacon after Solomon Hart.
  • Important in preparing the original Horlick's Malted Milk for infants / Horlick's Malted Milk Co.
  • Important in preparing the original Horlick's Malted Milk for infants / Horlick's Malted Milk Co.
  • Saint Geneviève is holding the Bible and a torch which an angel lights with a candle but a devil tries to extinguish with bellows; Notre Dame Cathedral in the background. Engraving.
  • Saint Gaetano kneeling, looking up at the Virgin and Christ seated on a cloud amid cherubs; cherub holding the Bible in the foreground. Engraving by G.B. Cipriani after A.D. Gabbiani, ca. 1760.
  • A king presiding over a massacre of infants; soldiers pour the blood of the infants into a boiling vat; probably representing the stage of 'putrefaction' in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A nurse holds up a phial in a clinic full of mothers and babies: the new vaccine against liver disease in infants in Tanzania. Colour lithograph by R. Mbago, 2002.
  • 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.
  • The Infant's Preservative : for complaints in the bowels of infants, as wind, gripes, convulsions, &c. for preventing the tooth fever, and rendering the operation of dentition easy and free from danger, for preventing the rickets, and for laying the foundation of a good constitution / prepared by John Atkinson.
  • Mellin's Food for infants and invalids : dissolved in diluted cow's milk as directed is acknowledged to be the best substitute for mother's milk : directions for use... / Mellin's Food Limited.
  • An essay on the diseases most fatal to infants. To which are added rules to be observed in the nursing of children: with a particular view to those who are brought up by hand ... / [George Armstrong].
  • Ethiopian Scroll comprising prayers against various ailments, including chest pains, the expulsion of evil spirits causing sickness and the protection of suckling infants. This illustration shows Susenyos spearing the demon, a popular motif in Ethiopean art similar to St George slaying the dragon.
  • Vitamalt : the perfect vitamin-food for infants, children and adults : Rich in the essential vitamins A, B, C and D : Especially recommended for delicate and ailing children, nursing & expectant mothers and in all cases of malnutrition and low vitality / Boots Pure Drug Company.
  • Vitamalt : the perfect vitamin-food for infants, children and adults : Rich in the essential vitamins A, B, C and D : Especially recommended for delicate and ailing children, nursing & expectant mothers and in all cases of malnutrition and low vitality / Boots Pure Drug Company.
  • Childbirth, or the happie deliverie of women. Wherein is set downe the gouernment of women ... together with the diseases which happen to women. To which is added, a treatise of the diseases of infants, and young children: with the cure of them / Written in French by Iames Gvillimeav.
  • Childbirth, or the happie deliverie of women. Wherein is set downe the gouernment of women ... together with the diseases which happen to women. To which is added, a treatise of the diseases of infants, and young children: with the cure of them / Written in French by Iames Gvillimeav.
  • Childbirth, or the happie deliverie of women. Wherein is set downe the gouernment of women ... together with the diseases which happen to women. To which is added, a treatise of the diseases of infants, and young children: with the cure of them / Written in French by Iames Gvillimeav.
  • In a rural garden, two boys draw the figure of Nature represented as a woman with six breasts feeding two infants; around, examples of nature and education. Engraving by E.J.N. de Ghendt after C.P. Marillier, ca. 1788/1793.
  • Aristotle's compleat and experienc'd midwife. In two parts. I. A guide for child-bearing women, in the time of their conception, bearing and suckling their children; with the best means of helping them, both in natural and unnatural labours: together with suitable remedies for the various indispositions of new-born infants. II. Proper and safe remedies for the curing all those distempers that are incident to the female sex; and more especially those that are any obstruction to their bearing of children / ... made English by W[illiam] S[almon], M.D.