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Making friends with your fertility : a clear and comforting guide to reproductive health, supporting you through the highs and lows of getting pregnant, IVF and assisted conception, adoption, fostering and living child-free / Tracey Sainsbury, Sarah Rayner.
Sainsbury, TraceyDate: 2017- Books
Making friends with your fertility : a clear and comforting guide to reproductive health, supporting you through the highs and lows of getting pregnant, IVF and assisted conception, adoption, fostering and living child-free / Tracey Sainsbury, Sarah Rayner.
Sainsbury, TraceyDate: 2017- Pictures
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Pero breast-feeding her imprisoned father Cimon. Line engraving by C. van Caukercken after P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Reference: 18149i- Pictures
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A paralysed old man being comforted and nursed by his children. Coloured line engraving by J.J. Flipart, 1767, after J.-B. Greuze.
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805.Date: 1767Reference: 18202i- Books
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A guide to the proper regulation of buildings in towns as a means of promoting and securing the health, comfort and safety of the inhabitants / by William Hosking.
Hosking, William, 1800-1861.Date: 1848- Pictures
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A weeping Pero, breast-feeding Cimon, her starving imprisoned father. Line engraving by J. Danzel after N.N. Coypel.
Coypel, Noël-Nicolas, 1690-1734.Date: [1765]Reference: 18152i- Books
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The pious country parishioner instructed how to spend every day, through the whole Course of his Life, in a religious and acceptable manner. Advice how to keep the Lord's Day holy. A Course of Reading the Holy Scriptures, wherein is shewn how much they out-do in Eloquence, all the Rules of human Art. A right Method of Education; the ill Consequence of with-holding Instruction from Children; how to subdue their Passions, and make them a Comfort to their Friends, and a Blessing to the World. The Feasts and Fasts. To which are added collects on Several Occasions: Also, a Discourse concerning the indispensible, though in Country Parishes, much neglected, Duty of Receiving the Blessed Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper: Wherein The Nature of it is described: The Obligations of frequenting it enforced: All the Excuses, usually brought for the Neglect of it, answered: The Ignorant Person taught what he must do in order to be A Worthy Communicant. And because all must die, Rules are given for a devout Behaviour in the Time of Sickness; and Directions laid down how to prepare for a happy Change at Death.
Date: 1793- Books
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The pious country parishioner instructed how to spend every day, through the whole Course of his Life, in a religious and acceptable manner. Advice how to keep the Lord's-Day holy. A Course of Reading the Holy Scriptures, wherein is shewn how much they out-do in Eloquence, all the Rules of human Art. A right Method of Education; the ill Consequence of with-holding Instruction from Children; how to subdue their Passions, and make them a Comfort to their Friends, and a Blessing to the World. The Feasts and Fasts. To which are added, Collects on several Occasions, Also, a Discourse concerning the indispensible, though, in Country Parishes, much-neglected Duty of receiving the Blessed Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper. Wherein The Nature of it is described. The Obligations of Frequenting it enforced. All the Excuses, usually brought for the Neglect of it, answered. The Ignorant Person taught what he must do in order to be A Worthy Communicant. And because all must die, Rules are given for a devout Behaviour in the Time of Sickness; and Directions laid down how to prepare for a happy Change at Death.
Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- Books
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The pious country parishioner instructed how to spend every day, through the whole Course of his Life, in a religious and acceptable manner. Advice how to keep the Lord's-Day holy. A Course of Reading the Holy Scriptures, wherein is shewn how much they out-do in Eloquence, all the Rules of human Art. A right Method of Education; the ill Consequence of withholding Instruction from Children; how to subdue their Passions, and make them a Comfort to their Friends, and a Blessing to the World. The Feasts and Fasts. To which are added, Collects on several Occasions. Also, a Discourse concerning the indispensible, though, in Country Parishes, much-neglected Duty of receiving the Blessed Sacrament of the Lord's-Supper. Wherein the Nature of it is described. The Obligations of Frequenting it enforced. All the Excuses, usually brought for the Neglect of it, answer'd. The Ignorant Person taught what he must do in order to be A Worthy Communicant. And because all must die, Rules are given for a devout Behaviour in the Time of Sickness; and Directions laid down how to prepare for a happy Change at Death.
Date: [1753]- Pictures
Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
Reference: 41400i- Pictures
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Pero breast-feeding her father Cimon in prison. Line engraving by J.P. le Bas after N.N. Coypel.
Coypel, Noël-Nicolas, 1690-1734.Date: [1735?]Reference: 18150i- Pictures
Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: L-S, ijk-yz. Coloured line engraving.
Reference: 17756i- Pictures
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A wife dutifully sits by the bedside of her sick husband, watching over him. Mezzotint by J.C. Bromley, 1837, after E. Prentis.
Prentis, Edward, 1797-1854.Date: 1 September 1837Reference: 17936i- Books
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The pious country parishioner. Being directions how a Christian may manage every day, through the whole Course of his Life, with safety and success. Advice how to spend Religiously the Sabbath-Day, what Books of the holy Scriptures ought to be read first; and how much they out-do, in Eloquence, all the Rules of human Art. The whole Method of Education; the ill Consequence of uninstructed Children; how to tame their Passions, and make them a Comfort to their Friends, and an Ornament to their Country. The Fasts and Feasts. To which are added, Collects for the most important Virtues which adorn the Soul. Also, a Discourse concerning the Indispensible, though, in Country-Parishes, much neglected Duty, the Blessed Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Wherein the Nature of it is described; The Obligations of Frequenting it, enforced. All the Excuses, usually brought for the Neglect of it, answer'd: The Uninstructed Soul taught what he must do, in order to be A Worthy Communicant. And because all must die, Rules are given to set the Soul right in Sickness, to prepare, for a happy Change at Death: So that in this one Treatise are contained all the Duties requisite to Salvation.
Date: [1732]- Books
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The pious country parishioner. Being directions how a Christian may manage every day, through the whole Course of his Life, with safety and success. Advice how to spend Religiously the Sabbath-Day, what Books of the holy Scriptures ought to be read first; and how much they out-do, in Eloquence, all the Rules of human Art. The whole Method of Education; the ill Consequence of uninstructed Children; how to tame their Passions, and make them a Comfort to their Friends, and an Ornament to their Country. The Fasts and Feasts. To which are added, Collects for the most important Virtues which adorn the Soul. Also, a Discourse concerning the Indispensible, though, in Country-Parisher, much neglected Duty, the Blessed Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Wherein the Nature of it is described. The Obligations of Frequenting it, enforced. All the Excuses, usually brought for the Neglect of it, answer'd. The Uninstructed Soul taught what he must do, in order to be A Worthy Communicant. And because all must die, Rules are given to set the Soul right in Sickness, to prepare for a happy Change at Death: So that in this one Treatise are contained all the Duties requisite to Salvation.
Date: [1745]- Pictures
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Saint Camillus de Lellis rescuing lives and offering shelter from the flooding Tiber, Rome. Line engraving by J. and J. Klauber.
Klauber, Joseph Sebastian, approximately 1700-1768.Reference: 17572i- Pictures
Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
Reference: 17755i- Pictures
Patients being tended and treated by nurses and physicians on a hospital ward. Line engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Reference: 17564i- Videos
Influenza: Twentieth century plague.
Date: 197?/198?- Books
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The personal union of the divine and human nature in our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and the benefits of it to mankind. And the comforts of a good conscience, and the torments of an evil one. In two sermons. Preached at Tavistock, in Devon. By Thomas Salmon, L.L.D. Published at the Request of the Principal Inhabitants.
Salmon, Thomas, 1714 or 1715-1759.Date: MD.CC.LIII. [1753]- Books
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Race, ethnicity, and sexuality : intimate intersections, forbidden frontiers / Joane Nagel.
Nagel, JoaneDate: 2003- Pictures
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Two nuns in a pharmacy, one holds a sick child on her lap: Sisters of Charity Order. Mezzotint by T. Oldham Barlow, 1862, after H. Browne.
Browne, Henriette, 1829-1901.Date: 1 August 1862Reference: 18213i- Pictures
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A scene showing alms-giving of food, water, clothes and money; in the midst of this Charity is seen with a Pelican on her head holding a Sacred Heart. Line engraving by H. Cock after P. Bruegel, 1559.
Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569.Date: 1559Reference: 17566i- Pictures
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Mademoiselle de La Vallière reading from the Bible to a sick paralysed woman, another prays while a dog welcomes the encouraging Saint Anselm. Coloured stipple engraving by L.C. Ruotte, 17--, after J.F. Schall.
Schall, Jean-Frédéric, 1752-1825.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 17933i- Pictures
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The good Samaritan helping a wounded man while a priest and Levite walk on. Line engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 18153i