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  • A young woman shows a shepherd a basket with a baby and lambs in it. Engraving by P. de Colle after F. Londonio.
  • 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 expectant mothers on healthy practices during pregnancy and at the birth. Colour lithograph after O. Gri︠u︡n, 1925.
  • 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.
  • Advice to expectant mothers on healthy practices during pregnancy and at the birth. Colour lithograph after O. Gri︠u︡n, 1925.
  • 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.
  • Dangers to the health of infants: germs and bacteria. Colour lithograph, 1922.
  • A nurse holding healthy twin babies. Colour lithograph after L. Tarasova, 1983.
  • A woman changing her child's nappy, her husband is watching them in an amused manner. Mezzotint.
  • A woman changing her child's nappy, her husband is watching them in an amused manner. Mezzotint.
  • Saint Vincent de Paul receiving supplications from mothers; below, a procession approaches a church. Line engraving by L. Cars after himself.
  • 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 Maasai mother with a child; representing support for the healthcare work of Memisa among the Maasai. Colour lithograph for Memisa, ca. 2000.
  • 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.
  • An old man in a wheelchair is fed by three boys; around him a family goes about its business. Etching by F. Vasconi after P.L. Ghezzi, 1719.
  • Children, representing children worldwide who are infected or affected by AIDS; advertisement by the World Health Organization (WHO). Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Caution against sexually transmitted disease. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941.
  • Death is challenged by a crusader representing the Red Cross; advertising the Third Red Cross Roll Call for the improvement of public health. Colour lithograph, 1919.
  • Death is challenged by a crusader representing the Red Cross; advertising the Third Red Cross Roll Call for the improvement of public health. Colour lithograph, 1919.
  • A couple making love, two people sharing needles, a man in a bed receiving a blood transfusion and a pregnant Indian woman; warning by the World Health Organization about the modes of transmission of HIV. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Menstruation, artwork
  • A doctor suggests to an exhausted patient that he commit theft and spend some time locked in a police cell in order to regain his health. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1878.
  • Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.