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  • Milking cows: testing temperature of water
  • Midwife checking the water temperature of the birthing pool
  • Diagram of Simple and Compound Atmosphere taken fron "An Experimental Essay on the Consitution of mixed Gases; on the force of steam or Vapour from Water and other Liquids in different temperatures, both in Torricellion Vacuum and in Air; on Evaporation; and on the Expansion of Gases by Heat." by Mr John Dalton
  • Birth of the Virgin by Holbein
  • Lying-in room, by Master of the North Tirol, 15thC
  • Birth of the Virgin by Zeitblom
  • Child Welfare, incubator
  • Birth of the Virgin, by Von Mekenem
  • Cleanliness in the washing up of dishes and leaving them to dry on a rack. Lithograph, 196-.
  • Leprosy: sensory testing
  • A woman in bed recovering from childbirth, a midwife washes the baby while another attendant looks after the mother. Woodcut.
  • "Vulcan's cave" at the entrance to the Solfatara, near Naples: jets of steam emerging from the rock floor, watched by spectators. Etching.
  • Humboldt Penguins
  • Humboldt Penguins
  • Diatoms hidden inside a grain of sand, SEM