Identifier: motherchild01whip (find matches)
Title: Mother and child
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Whipple, Guy M. Provision for the education of gifted children in the United States American Child Health Association American Child Hygiene Association National Child Health Council (U.S.). Child health in Erie County, New York
Subjects: Child health services Child welfare Children Maternal health services Mothers Child Health Services Child Welfare Maternal Health Services
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : American Child Hygiene Association
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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onto believe is almost a law thoughI have never seen it definitelyformulated, is to the effect thatwhenever a nation becomes the seatof a rich and degenerate autocracywhere wealth accumulates andmen decay, not only infanticideincreases but maternal nursing isreplaced by artificial food, and some PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING-BOTTLE 59 form of the nursing-bottle appears.The nursing-bottle might well bemade an ideograph for nationaldecay; in time and space, from itsearliest appearance to its final evo-lutionary stage, this utensil has ap-peared a long time after high-bornladies have refused to be burdenedwith the feeding care of their off-spring. In fact, the use of the women cast about for somemechanical means of giving food tothe infant in order to replace or tosupplement breast-feeding. It isalmost apparent that the earliernurses were not substitutes for, but,rather were used as an adjunct to,the product of the wet-nurse. Thisuse was not always found amongthe most noble and most affluent S/r
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) t -•US jjc>r raU<in<»m«at an (i«tit ;».t. Ancient Forms of the Nursing-bottle. (From Hygiene Infantile. Auvard et Pinget) nursing-bottle in history seems tocome invariably after a period ofgreat social dissipation. The wetnurse has always been an importantfigure in the history of infant feed-ing. Among the wealthy nations ofantiquity, as wet nurses becamemore and more in demand, men and ladies, but probably among theirless noble and less wealthy imita-tors. Just as in barbaric times onecould estimate the wealth of thenomad by the size of his herds, sothe wealth and nobility of theseancient dames might be counted byusing a numerical wet-nurse index. 6o JOHN FOOTE THE WET-NURSE MARKET Soranus of Ephesus, wise obstet-rician of the Second Century inRome, said that wet-nursing wasnot better than maternal nursing,but was more expedient for themother. He advised the mother,whenever possible, to have two orthree wet nurses, so that if one wasnot well, or her milk became un-su

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