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their baby should not breastfeed. In his experience, poor women who were paid to be wet nurses in Germany were most likely to pass venereal disease and other illnesses on to the baby, who, when returned to the care of its parents, passed the disease on to them. Zwierlein insisted that for a human baby in such circumstances, a goat's milk was preferable to a woman's. Goats, he asserted, are clean, tame, playful, friendly, social, good-natured, not easily frightened, and not prone to anger. Zwierlein also spoke of several country towns he knew of where adults and infants used goat's milk exclusively, as it was easier than cow's milk to digest.
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categorized them in four ways: the most common situation in which women nursed animals was the affectionate breastfeeding of family pets. The second most common motivation for this practice was economic; for example, to save an animal who might otherwise die, and could be eaten or be useful to the family economy in some way. Ceremonial breastfeeding of animals was the third category, relating to rituals, sacrifice, cultural or religious customs. Nursing animals for the mother's sake, such as relieving pain from mastitis or engorged breasts, was found to be the least common motivation.
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recommended in 1825 that from the eighth month of pregnancy, expectant mothers should regularly use a puppy to harden the nipples, improve breast secretion and prevent inflammation of the breasts. The practice seems to have fallen out of favour by 1847, as Dewees suggested using a nurse or some other
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conferred great courage. Goats were thought to transmit a libidinous character and some preferred to employ donkeys as wet nurses instead, as they were thought to be more moral animals. In modern Egypt, though, donkeys were disfavoured as wet nurses as it was thought that a child suckled on donkeys'
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in 18th- and 19th-century Europe. Breastfeeding animals has also been practised, whether for perceived health reasons – such as to toughen the nipples and improve the flow of milk – or for religious and cultural purposes. A wide variety of animals have been used for this purpose, including
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were fed to nanny goats – if they refused to drink them, honey was recommended as a way of disguising the metallic taste – or were ingested into the goat's bloodstream via a deliberately inflicted wound on the animal's leg that was covered with an ointment containing mercury. The mercury
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The breastfeeding by humans of animals is a practice that is widely attested historically and continues to be practised today by some cultures. The reasons for this are varied: to feed young animals, to drain a woman's breasts, to promote lactation, to harden the nipples before a baby is born, to
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that was slowly poisoning her. Mary Cooley Spencer, an American woman living in Colonia Dublan in 1911, breastfed a collie puppy while suffering from smallpox. She had a five month old daughter, who was cared for by a friend while she recovered. Nursing the puppy allowed her to maintain her milk
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Zwierlein's personal opinion was that women who are sick, dehydrated, depressed, or even in old age should not breastfeed their own babies because their milk could harm the child. He felt that even mothers who did not love their child and would rather spend time in pursuits other than tending to
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of southern Africa were reported to tie their babies to the bellies of female goats so that they could feed there. In the 18th and 19th centuries, goats were widely used in Europe as alternatives to human wet nurses, as they were easier to obtain, cheaper to use and safer, in that they were less
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in 1775: "The cribs are arranged in a large room in 2 ranks. Each goat which comes to feed enters bleating and goes to hunt the infant which has been given it, pushes back the covering with its horns and straddles the crib to give suck to the infant. Since that time they have raised very large
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Simoons and Baldwin gathered and summarized global accounts of human-animal breastfeeding in their 1982 paper entitled, “Breast-Feeding of Animals by Women: Its Social-Cultural Context and Geographic Occurrence.” They studied the motivations of women world-wide for breast-feeding animals and
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milk would acquire the animal's stupidity and obstinacy. Human milk was thought to transmit character traits as well; in 19th century France a law was proposed to ban disreputable mothers from nursing their own children so that their immoral traits would not be transmitted via their milk.
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wrote of its supposed dangers. How widely this idea was accepted is impossible to know, but it could have been an additional purpose for human-animal breastfeeding as women sought a means to discard colostrum while establishing a milk supply for their baby.
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Animals have widely been used to toughen the nipples and maintain the mother's milk supply. In Persia and Turkey puppies were used for this purpose. The same method was practised in the United States in the early 19th century;
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following the birth of her second daughter, the doctor ordered that puppies be applied to her breasts to draw off the milk, possibly with the intention of helping her womb to contract to expel the infected
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and was passed into the syphilitic babies when they suckled at the goats' teats. This method did have some effect of improving the infants' mortality rates, though the goats tended to die prematurely of
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indicate that children who were not being breastfed were receiving animal milk, probably from cows. It is possible that some infants directly sucked lactating animals, which served as alternatives to
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or suckling between humans and other species occurred in both directions: women sometimes breastfed young animals, and animals were used to suckle babies and children. Animals were used as substitute
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Stories of abandoned children being brought up by animal mothers such as she-wolves and bears were widespread in Europe from the Middle Ages and into modern times. One real-life case was that of
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women suckled young dogs to dislodge nodules from their breasts. An example of the practice being used for health reasons comes from late 18th century England. When the writer
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member Agata Dembiecka became the focus of controversy in 2010 when a calendar issued by an animal rescue charity featured a photograph of her suckling a puppy.
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prone to passing on diseases. This use of animals was already a well-established practice in rural France and Italy; Pierre Brouzet, the personal physician of
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English and German physicians between the 16th and 18th centuries recommended using puppies to "draw" the mother's breasts, and in 1799 the German
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In the present day, the act of breastfeeding animals has been used as a sometimes controversial artistic statement. The album art for
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of Russia but in their case for economic reasons, to benefit from the meat when the bear was grown and to obtain highly prized
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The belief that animal characteristics could be transmitted via milk was widely held; the Swedish scientist
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One important use of goats for suckling concerned the feeding and attempted cure of babies born with
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includes a photograph of the singer breastfeeding a piglet. In Ireland, 22-year-old model and
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Infant feeding and its influence on life: or, The causes and prevention of infant mortality
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A woman breast feeding two puppies while two Mexican peasants implore her to feed her baby.
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has been practiced in some different cultures during various time periods. The practice of
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increased the health risks of wet nursing. Goats and donkeys were widely used to feed
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American Folk Medicine : A symposium, "The role of animals in infant feeding"
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Tribal peoples around the world have breastfed many types of animal. Travelers in
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of Persia was said to have been suckled by a dog, while mares supposedly suckled
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at which a captured bear, raised and suckled by the women, is sacrificed.
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permits children to suckle animals if the child's welfare dictates it.
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recommended that mothers rid their bodies of their first milk, called
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observed native women breastfeeding a variety of animals, including
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Goats have often been used to suckle human babies and infants. The
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Religious and ceremonial reasons have also been a factor. Saint
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babies in hopes of keeping them alive long enough to sell to a
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skilled person to carry out this task rather than an animal.
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for use in traditional medicine. American animal trafficker
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The suckling of infants by animals was a repeated theme in
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Breast versus Bottle. A history of Infant feeding in Malta
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inherited from their mothers. Liquid compounds laced with
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feeding bottles surviving from the third millennium BC in
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Donkeys suckling children in a French institution, 1895
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who brought him up on the milk of her goat. Similarly,
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Index


breastfeeding
wet nurses
syphilis
abandoned babies
foundling hospitals
Terracotta
Sumeria
wet nurses
pasteurisation
Talmud


classical mythology
Romulus and Remus
Capitoline Wolf
Zeus
Amalthea
nymph
Telephus
Heracles
Cyrus I
Croesus
Xerxes
Lysimachus
Al-Andaluz
Hayy ibn Yaqdhan
Peter the Wild Boy
Pitt-Hopkins syndrome
Carl Linnaeus

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