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  • 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.
  • 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 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 woman in a purple shirt holding a baby representing a warning in Spanish to potential mothers to take an AIDS test by the New York State Health Department. Colour lithograph.
  • A doctor vaccinating a baby, other babies wait with their mothers to be vaccinated. Process print after a photograph by M.M. Braun, Clément & Co. after a painting by P. Dagnan-Bouveret.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • A young woman hugs her knees representing an advertisement for Rainbow House, a long-term care residence for adolescents and teen mothers who have HIV/AIDS; poster issued by the NJCAMA Ad Council. Colour lithograph.
  • A young woman hugs her knees representing an advertisement for Rainbow House, a long-term care residence for adolescents and teen mothers who have HIV/AIDS; poster issued by the NJCAMA Ad Council. Colour lithograph.
  • A black woman in a yellow jumper holds a baby with his rattle on her knee representing a warning to potential mothers to take an AIDS test by the New York State Health Department.
  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a perspective view looking north-east at the main building, with penitent mothers arriving beside a statue of fortune. Engraving by C. Grignion and P. C. Canot after S. Wale, 1749.
  • Arranged and approved : it took our mothers a long time to understand and accept our relationship, but now they feel they have each gained another son / The Naz Project London ; photography by: Parminder Sekhon.
  • A black woman in a yellow jumper holds a baby with his rattle on her knee representing a warning to potential mothers to take an AIDS test by the New York State Health Department. Colour lithograph.
  • A youth with one hand resting on his arm representing an advertisement for Rainbow House, a long-term care residence for adolescents and teen mothers who have HIV/AIDS; poster issued by the NJCAMA Ad Council. Colour lithograph.
  • A baby boy with a scarred and swollen face with a warning in spanish about the risk of HIV mothers transmitting the AIDS disease to babies; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
  • A certaine relation of the hog-faced gentlewoman called Mistris Tannakin Skinker ... borne at Wirkham ... on the river Rhyne. Who was bewitched in her mothers wombe in ... 1618 ... And can never recover her true shape, tell she be married.
  • A woman sits with her hands together representing a woman who had a baby as a teenager while HIV+; an advertisement for Rainbow House, a long-term care residence for adolescents and teen mothers who have HIV/AIDS; poster issued by the NJCAMA Ad Council. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman sits with her hands together representing a woman who had a baby as a teenager while HIV+; an advertisement for Rainbow House, a long-term care residence for adolescents and teen mothers who have HIV/AIDS; poster issued by the NJCAMA Ad Council. Colour lithograph.
  • 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.
  • Many more children live in families touched by HIV and AIDS : Since the beginning of th epidemic nine million children across the world have lost their mothers to AIDS / NPL, The Naz Project, an HIV/AIDS service for the South Asian, Middle Eastern & North African communities.
  • Many more children live in families touched by HIV and AIDS : Since the beginning of th epidemic nine million children across the world have lost their mothers to AIDS / NPL, The Naz Project, an HIV/AIDS service for the South Asian, Middle Eastern & North African communities.
  • A dissertation on artificial teeth : evincing the advantages of teeth made of mineral paste, over every denomination of animal substance To which is added, advice to mothers and nurses on the prevention and cure of those diseases which attend the first dentition / By N. Dubois de Chémant.
  • Two scenes from a Samurai epic: left, a warrior brandishes his sword while an ethereal woman seeks to restrain (?) him; the severed head of a demon (?) cat lies on the ground; right, two mothers, one holding her child on her shoulder, the other seated on the ground breast-feeding. Woodcuts by Yanagawa Shigenobu, ca. 1830 (?).
  • The new domestic medicine. Or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : With an appendix containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan ... ; To which is now first added, memoirs of the life of Dr. Buchan: and important extracts from other works, praticularly his 'Advice to mothers' ... by William Nisbet. Including also new treatises on sea-bathing, etc.
  • Mother Cell
  • Pages from the account book of a medical practitioner in the Towcester-Litchborough area of Northamptonshire. Accounts of childbirth relate to deliveries made by the owner and his business associates Messrs. Grant and Deacon of Towcester. These contain details of dates of birth, mothers, sex of infant, and fees levied. Other accounts of income and expenditure are both professional and domestic, with occasional notices of inoculations. The initials 'T.W.' are present throughout the volume, and internal evidence suggests that the accounts are of a member of the Watkins family, several generations of which practised medicine in Towcester. The owner was possibly Timothy Watkins, grandfather of John Webb Watkins (1833-1903).
  • Pages from the account book of a medical practitioner in the Towcester-Litchborough area of Northamptonshire. Accounts of childbirth relate to deliveries made by the owner and his business associates Messrs. Grant and Deacon of Towcester. These contain details of dates of birth, mothers, sex of infant, and fees levied. Other accounts of income and expenditure are both professional and domestic, with occasional notices of inoculations. The initials 'T.W.' are present throughout the volume, and internal evidence suggests that the accounts are of a member of the Watkins family, several generations of which practised medicine in Towcester. The owner was possibly Timothy Watkins, grandfather of John Webb Watkins (1833-1903).
  • Pages from the account book of a medical practitioner in the Towcester-Litchborough area of Northamptonshire. Accounts of childbirth relate to deliveries made by the owner and his business associates Messrs. Grant and Deacon of Towcester. These contain details of dates of birth, mothers, sex of infant, and fees levied. Other accounts of income and expenditure are both professional and domestic, with occasional notices of inoculations. The initials 'T.W.' are present throughout the volume, and internal evidence suggests that the accounts are of a member of the Watkins family, several generations of which practised medicine in Towcester. The owner was possibly Timothy Watkins, grandfather of John Webb Watkins (1833-1903).
  • Pages from the account book of a medical practitioner in the Towcester-Litchborough area of Northamptonshire. Accounts of childbirth relate to deliveries made by the owner and his business associates Messrs. Grant and Deacon of Towcester. These contain details of dates of birth, mothers, sex of infant, and fees levied. Other accounts of income and expenditure are both professional and domestic, with occasional notices of inoculations. The initials 'T.W.' are present throughout the volume, and internal evidence suggests that the accounts are of a member of the Watkins family, several generations of which practised medicine in Towcester. The owner was possibly Timothy Watkins, grandfather of John Webb Watkins (1833-1903).