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Adult breast-feeding in the Renaissance and Early Modern world July 12, 2010

Posted by Beachcombing in : Medieval, Modern
Adult breast-feeding in the Renaissance and Early Modern world

Beachcombing has been wasting his summer looking at Early Modern diet fads. Several have appealed to him, but certainly the one that clamoured most urgently for his attention was the belief that human breast milk was a healthy addition to the adult diet. Beachcombing quotes from WANW Ken Albala and his wonderful Eating Right in [...]