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  • 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.
  • The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either mother or child / written in Latin by Henry à Daventer ; made English ; To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician.
  • The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either mother or child / written in Latin by Henry à Daventer ; made English ; To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician.
  • Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. Asteraceae Milk thistle. Carduus Mariae. Distribution: Europe. Gerard (1633) calls it Carduus Mariae, Carduus Lectus, or Ladies Thistle, and Carduus leucographus [meaning 'white writing', in reference to the white markings on the leaves] because Pliny wrote about a plant he called Leucographis although Gerard notes that it would be 'hard to assume this to be the same [plant].' He also queries if it is the same as the Alba spina of Galen. Of the latter he reports that Galen recommended it for all manner of bleeding, toothache and the seeds for cramp. Gerard writes that Dioscorides recommends that a drink of the seeds helps infants whose sinews are 'drawne together'
  • Simeon takes the infant Christ in his arms. Etching by A. Smith.
  • Simeon takes the infant Christ in his arms. Etching by A. Smith.
  • Simeon holds the infant Jesus in his arms. Etching by Rembrandt, ca. 1639.
  • Thomas Coram, in the foreground an infant in a basket, in the background the Foundling Hospital. Line engraving by J. W. Cook after B. Nebot, 1741.
  • Thomas Coram, in the foreground an infant in a basket, in the background the Foundling Hospital. Line engraving by J. Brooke, 1751, after B. Nebot, 1741.
  • Thomas Coram, in the foreground an infant in a basket, in the background the Foundling Hospital. Line engraving by T. Priscott, 1817, after B. Nebot, 1741.
  • Thomas Coram, in the foreground an infant in a basket, in the background the Foundling Hospital. Line engraving by J. Brooke, 1751, after B. Nebot, 1741.
  • The Virgin Mary and the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes; Joseph sits nearby. Etching by F. de Grado.
  • A young couple with an infant daughter; advertising the One-child policy in China. Colour lithograph, 198-.
  • The three Magi offering gifts to the infant Christ, who sits in the lap of the Virgin Mary in a stable. Etching by Jacques Callot.
  • The Virgin Mary with Christ as an infant with Joseph and Anne, in the background the archangel Gabriel holding a lily. Line engraving.
  • [Leaflet advertising an appearance by James Paine, the Infant Hercules at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly with the British Tom Thumb, "the smallest man in the world"].
  • The Virgin Mary nursing the infant Jesus with Elizabeth and John the Baptist, Joseph is reading in the background. Engraving by Fra Bonaventura Bisi, 1634, after himself.
  • Saint Francis of Paula, surrounded by four men, touches the forehead of an infant in its mother's arms; two cherubs are in the sky. Etching by J. Leonardis after S. Ricci, ca. 1750/1780.
  • Saint Gaetano kneeling, looking up at the Virgin and the infant Christ seated on a cloud amid cherubs; cherubs holding a crown in the foreground. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 17--.
  • Saint Gaetano kneeling, looking up at the Virgin and the infant Christ seated on a cloud amid cherubs; cherubs holding a crown in the foreground. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 17--.
  • 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.
  • Saint John the Baptist as an infant, sleeping, with a cross in his hand. Engraving by C. Heath after W.M. Craig after A. Carracci (?), 1815.
  • The mystic marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and the infant Christ; the latter sits in the lap of the Virgin Mary, who sits next to Joseph. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after P. Tibaldi.
  • The birth of the Virgin: Saint Anne in bed receiving attention while others attend to the infant Virgin Mary, overlooked by an angel swinging a censer. Engraving by M.A. Raimondi after A. Dürer.
  • Telephus (son of Hercules) being suckled by a doe in the temple of Athena where as an infant he was left to die. Colour photogravure after a mural at Herculaneum.
  • Telephus (son of Hercules) being suckled by a doe in the temple of Athena where as an infant he was left to die. Colour photogravure after a mural at Herculaneum.
  • Telephus (son of Hercules) being suckled by a doe in the temple of Athena where as an infant he was left to die. Colour photogravure after a mural at Herculaneum.
  • An infant blowing bellows into a furnace; allegory of the role of N. Lefevre in chemistry. Etching (portrait) after R.M. Pariset, and etching (border) by J-G. Blanchon after himself.
  • An infant blowing bellows into a furnace; allegory of the role of N. Lefevre in chemistry. Etching (portrait) after R.M. Pariset, and etching (border) by J-G. Blanchon after himself.