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  • Infancy is an exciting time for both the child and the family.

    Infant play, coping support and preparation 2010

  • The following passages, taken out of an excellent "Lecture on Sudden Death in Infancy and Childhood," just published, show the vital importance of careful nursing of children.

    Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 1860

  • Teitelbaum P, Teitelbaum O, Nye J, et al. Movement Analysis in Infancy May Be Useful for Early Diagnosis of Autism.

    Hot Topics: Autism 2008

  • But turn your attention from the canonical Bible to the Apocrypha-in particular, to the Gospel of Thomas, one of the so-called Infancy Gospels, stories of Jesus's childhood nearly 2,000 years old-and you'll find the child Jesus animating clay sparrows, restoring people to life, and even exacting revenge on his enemies.

    City Journal 2009

  • Skadberg BT, Markestad T. Consequences of Getting the Head Covered During Sleep in Infancy.

    Ben Goldacre on MMR, autism, and the media Nicole 2009

  • "Infancy," said Coleridge, "presents body and spirit in unity: the body is all animated."

    Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

  • Now, the very first book was called "Infancy"; and, having finished it,

    In the Footprints of the Padres Charles Warren Stoddard 1876

  • They took tea with his brother, Andrew Combe, the author of that admirable work on "Infancy," which has proved a real blessing to many young mothers.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

  • Already in the apocryphal gospel of the "Infancy," the demoniac Son of the Chief Priest puts on his head one of the swaddling-clothes of Christ which Mary has hung out to dry, and forthwith "the devils began to come out of his mouth and to fly away as _crows_ and serpents."

    Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

  • The early church did the same in part, such works as the ‘Apocalypse of Peter’ or the ‘Infancy Gospel of James’ have informed Christian theology even though they were never included in the bible.

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

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