Mother and child (1920) (14763645305)

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
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and the National Endowment for the Humanities



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ot seemto have used breast-replacing foodsearly enough to have required bot-tle-feeding. Among the Jews,breast-feeding was universal. Wet-nursing was a common practicewith the Greek ladies of ancientdays, and Spartan nurses were PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING-BOTTLE 6l much esteemed for this purpose. Itwas customary among both Greeksand Romans to bury with theirchildren toys and utensils of vari-ous kinds, just as when infantswere abandoned by their mothers,some little trinket was left withthem as a remembrance gift. Fromthe tombs of children in suchRoman colonies as France andSpain, numerous clay utensils ofthe nursing-bottle type have been philosophic Marcus Aurelius, wefind an over-ripe civilization, un-equal distribution of wealth, and adiminishing aristocratic ruling class■—and the nursing-bottle. TWO POETS OF LACTATION Observe, then, the nursing-bottletrooping along always in the wakeof the wet-nurse and in fact a con-siderable distance behind her. Thehigh cost of ^ wet-nursing seems
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Roman Nursing Bottles, Wiesbaden Museum, found. These belong to the laterdays of Rome—not so very longbefore Aulus Gellius, the Romanlawyer, felt impelled to put intothe mouth of a Greek philosopherwhom he called Favorinus, a bitterdenunciation of the practice com-mon among Roman nations of en-gaging slaves or hirelings to nursetheir infants. Here again in themad, rich Rome from the days ofAugustus to the passing of the to have been a determining factorin this tardy appearance of the bot-tle. In England and on the con-tinent of Europe, it is certain thatanimal milk was not extensivelyused as an infant food until theeighteenth century. An Italiangentleman and soldier named Tau-sillo besought the high-born ladiesof Italy to nurse their own infants,in a poem written about 1530, inwhich he neatly plagiarized all of 62 JOHN FOOTE , Aulus Gellius arguments. Scaevolecle St. Marthe, a French gentleman,composed in 1584 a Latin poemcalled Paedotrophia, in order thatchildren whose parents read