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  • Ankylostomiasis: parents and ten children in the USA (?) with hookworm disease. Photograph, 1926.
  • A treatise of the rickets : being a disease common to children / Published in Latin by F. Glisson, G. Bate, and A. Regemorter. Translated into English by Phil. Armin.
  • A treatise of the rickets : being a disease common to children / Published in Latin by F. Glisson, G. Bate, and A. Regemorter. Translated into English by Phil. Armin.
  • A treatise of the rickets : being a disease common to children / Published in Latin by F. Glisson, G. Bate, and A. Regemorter. Translated into English by Phil. Armin.
  • Jennie Reyes, mother of a son who died of AIDS with a warning in spanish about how children can be infected with the disease; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Black and white lithograph.
  • The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children ... With physical preparations for each disease incident to the female sex / [Jane Sharp].
  • The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children ... With physical preparations for each disease incident to the female sex / [Jane Sharp].
  • The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children ... With physical preparations for each disease incident to the female sex / [Jane Sharp].
  • The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children ... With physical preparations for each disease incident to the female sex / [Jane Sharp].
  • The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children ... With physical preparations for each disease incident to the female sex / [Jane Sharp].
  • The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children ... With physical preparations for each disease incident to the female sex / [Jane Sharp].
  • The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children ... With physical preparations for each disease incident to the female sex / [Jane Sharp].
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: doctors in the Heubner section for infectious diseases. Photograph, 1921.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: nurses in the Heubner section for infectious diseases. Photograph, 1921.
  • A baby receiving a vaccination: Immunization against diseases in children in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Division of Health Education, ca. 2000.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: a nurse demonstrating surgical instruments to other nurses in the Heubner section for infectious diseases. Photograph, 1921.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae. Goatsbeard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae Goats beard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae. Goatsbeard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • 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.
  • 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].
  • A variety of Native Indian accessories and musical instruments with a warning to get children hooked on cultural pastimes rather than let them get involved in teen pregnancy, drugs and alcohol that can lead to AIDS or other sexually transmitted diseases; advertisement by the Seattle Indian Health Board. Colour lithograph by Stewart Tilger and Christine P. Salvador.
  • Sick and diseased children compared with healthy playing children: immunization in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • Notes taken by an anonymous student of lectures on Midwifery by Dr. Colin Mackenzie at the General Lying-in Hospital [afterwards Queen Charlotte's Hospital.] [Followed by] Diseases of children, with directions for the management of them. To which is added the symptoms by which you can distinguish their complaints, and the Materia Medica infantum [by] Dr. Osborn and Mr. Clark. The first leaf of text is dated January 29, 1770. Produced in London.
  • The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities: or, the ingenius gentlewoman and servant-maids delightful companion. Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex ... (1.) The art of distilling. (2.) Making artificial wines. (3.) Making syrups. ... (8) To make beautifying-waters, oyls, pomatums musk-balls, perfumes, &c. (9) Physical and chyrurgical receipts. (10.) The duty of a wet nurse; and to know and cure diseases in children, &c. ... (14.) The accomplished dairy-maids directions, &c. (15.) The judicious midwives directions, how women in travail before and after delivery ought to be used; as also the child; and what relates to the preservation of them both. To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentlewomen. As to her behavior & seemly deportment / [J.S. (John Shirley)].
  • The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities: or, the ingenius gentlewoman and servant-maids delightful companion. Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex ... (1.) The art of distilling. (2.) Making artificial wines. (3.) Making syrups. ... (8) To make beautifying-waters, oyls, pomatums musk-balls, perfumes, &c. (9) Physical and chyrurgical receipts. (10.) The duty of a wet nurse; and to know and cure diseases in children, &c. ... (14.) The accomplished dairy-maids directions, &c. (15.) The judicious midwives directions, how women in travail before and after delivery ought to be used; as also the child; and what relates to the preservation of them both. To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentlewomen. As to her behavior & seemly deportment / [J.S. (John Shirley)].
  • A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician riding a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession that scares children; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician with a lancet riding on a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession, scaring children as they go; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.