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Woking Convict Invalid Prison: five women prisoners convicted of infanticide. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.

The holy family prepare to flee for Egypt. Engraving by F. Poilly after G. Reni.

Pope Sixtus IV being shown the cadavers of dead illegitimate children picked out of the Tiber, and deciding to reform the law which allowed their infanticide. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?) after a freso painting.

The wife of Hasdrubal the Boetharch, seeing the defeat of Carthage by the Romans, throws herself and her children into a blazing temple in front of distressed onlookers. Engraving by P. Woeiriot.

A witches' sabbath. Line engraving, 17--.

The massacre of the innocents. Etching by F.P. Massau after J.F. Overbeck, 1843.

Mary and Joseph walk to Egypt with the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Pitau, 1666, after S. François.

Mary and Joseph with Jesus through a wide landscape to Egypt. Etching by J. Callot.

Mary and Joseph ride to Egypt with the infant Jesus. Engraving by H. Wierix..

A naked witch flies to the sabbath mounted on a goat, while her companions continue to prepare their drugs. Process print after H. Baldung Grien.

ude mico-lale sur l'infanticide / par Ambroise Tardieu ... ; avec trois planches coloris.

Should the baby live? : the problem of handicapped infants / Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer.

Étude médico-légale sur l'infanticide / par Ambroise Tardieu.

A dissertation on infanticide, : in its relations to physiology and jurisprudence. / By William Hutchinson, M.D. F.L.S.

A medico-legal essay on infanticide : translated from the author's Latin inaugural dissertation, composed on that subject, and submitted to the Faculty of Medicine in Edinburgh, preparatory to receiving the degree of M.D. in the present year / by Robert Arrowsmith.

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ude mico-lale sur l'infanticide / par Ambroise Tardieu ... ; avec trois planches coloris.

Should the baby live? : the problem of handicapped infants / Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer.

Étude médico-légale sur l'infanticide / par Ambroise Tardieu.

A dissertation on infanticide, : in its relations to physiology and jurisprudence. / By William Hutchinson, M.D. F.L.S.

A medico-legal essay on infanticide : translated from the author's Latin inaugural dissertation, composed on that subject, and submitted to the Faculty of Medicine in Edinburgh, preparatory to receiving the degree of M.D. in the present year / by Robert Arrowsmith.