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Every mother's book, or The child's best doctor / by Alfred Fennings.

<p>Poster advertising disposable nappies, the different types, how much they are and how to get the best from them.</p>

1 sheet : colour illustrations ; 76 x 52 cm

Choosing and using disposable nappies / Disposable Baby Napkin Manufacturers Association.

The Glaxo baby book.

xiv, 346 pages, pages xv-xlv : illustrations ; 19 cm

Chavasse's advice to a mother : on the management of her children and on the treatment of some of their illnesses and accidents.

x, 410 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

A practical handbook of midwifery and gynæcology for students and practitioners / by W.F.T. Haultain and Clifford Kennedy ; including a section on the management of the infant and neo-natal conditions / by J.L. Henderson.

xv, 243 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm

Mothercraft / by Mary Truby King.

Book of child care / Hugh Jolly.

682 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Baby and child care : British edition completely adapted, revised and updated for today's parents / Benjamin Spock.

<p>Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Lifebuoy Soap ('Let Lifebuoy protect your family's health! 1935?), Lifebuoy Royal Disinfectant Soap (for hands and bath), Lifebuoy's 'The game of clean hands and dirty hands' board game, Wright's Coal Tar Soap, D.W. Gibbs's Superfine Cold Cream Soap (1901? : "a marvellous remedy for eczema"), Vinolia Soap for sensitive skins (1892?), Plantol Soap (free from animal fats), Vaseline Soap, Soft Soap (Palmer & Co., Ltd., 1903).</p>

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Every mother's book, or The child's best doctor / by Alfred Fennings.

Choosing and using disposable nappies / Disposable Baby Napkin Manufacturers Association.

The Glaxo baby book.

Chavasse's advice to a mother : on the management of her children and on the treatment of some of their illnesses and accidents.

A practical handbook of midwifery and gynæcology for students and practitioners / by W.F.T. Haultain and Clifford Kennedy ; including a section on the management of the infant and neo-natal conditions / by J.L. Henderson.

Mothercraft / by Mary Truby King.

Book of child care / Hugh Jolly.

Baby and child care : British edition completely adapted, revised and updated for today's parents / Benjamin Spock.

Soap ephemera. Box 3.

Babyware / Penny Junor.

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Every mother's book, or The child's best doctor / by Alfred Fennings.

Choosing and using disposable nappies / Disposable Baby Napkin Manufacturers Association.

The Glaxo baby book.

Chavasse's advice to a mother : on the management of her children and on the treatment of some of their illnesses and accidents.

A practical handbook of midwifery and gynæcology for students and practitioners / by W.F.T. Haultain and Clifford Kennedy ; including a section on the management of the infant and neo-natal conditions / by J.L. Henderson.

Mothercraft / by Mary Truby King.

Book of child care / Hugh Jolly.

Baby and child care : British edition completely adapted, revised and updated for today's parents / Benjamin Spock.

Soap ephemera. Box 3.

Babyware / Penny Junor.

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