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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stork, post: 2801573, member: 71642&quot;]A couple of medical additions to my &#039;mother-baby&#039; theme.</p><p><br /></p><p>First is a medal by Devreese.&nbsp; Dr. Edouard Kufferath was a Belgian OB, renown as an excellent teacher, and who pioneered using aseptic rules which led to a significant decrease in mother/baby mortality.&nbsp; He also described new techniques and had a set of delivery forceps named after him.&nbsp; I like this medal as it shows him with a model of a pelvis and what appears to be a pelvimetry/measuring device.</p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/1xf8KvbvRq1conrsxCoQ_combo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The second is by Lancelot-Croce, a French artist who eventually married an Italian and moved to Italy with him.&nbsp; I had spotted this medal very early in my adult collecting days and have been wanting it ever since.&nbsp; Another one of those 10 year finds!&nbsp; And, reasonably priced, in excellent condition, and with its original box.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one features Dr. Pinard, who has a maneuver for the delivery of twins named after him that is still used today.&nbsp; He also was a proponent and leader in pre/perinatal care and patient education regarding maternal and infant health.&nbsp; The title on the medal &quot;puericulteure&quot; is the masculine version of the current work &quot;puericultrice&quot; which is what a maternal-newborn nurse is now called.&nbsp; The translation on the reverse/bottom is &quot;The milk of the mother belongs to the child&quot;. </p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/l7CFWXnUR9x2plNUY1NQ_combo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now that I have it in hand, I can see a similarity between this one and one of my other all time favorites, also by Lancelot-Croce (The Work of the Barbarians):</p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/gnu3GmIUT2GZtgZNghEM_barbarian%20bronze%20combo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>and the detail of the tiny face/hands (the latter is from a silver version):</p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/w7VaH8irSPuMaPhvruTY_barbarians%20bronze%20detail%20small.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>and</p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/LVgWprnTGZwE25iZgKTA_Barbarian%20detail%202.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Today was a good mail day![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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