Jürgen Schlumbohm. "Saving Mothers' and Children's Lives?: The Performance of German Lying-in Hospitals in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 87.1 (2013): 1-31. Project MUSE. Web. 22 Apr. 2013. The author carefully runs the statistics and does a bit of comparing. He concludes-- though he has to ( Read more... )

In the course of my research, I Interlibrary Loaned Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin Summer 1980, Volume XXXVIII Number 1.
Secular Painting in 15th-Century Tuscany: Birth Trays, Cassone Panels, and Portraits by John Pope-Hennessy and Keith Christiansen ( Read more... )