The bedroom of a parturient. Midwives tend to a newborn baby while the mother rests in bed. Another child lies in a cradle beside her. Facsimile of an engraving after a miniature in "Histoire de la Belle Hélène", manuscript of the 15th century. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

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