Sentences with phrase «class wet nurse»
Linnaeus thought that the lower class wet nurse ate too much fat, drank alcohol and had contagious (venereal) diseases, therefore producing lethal milk.
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Wet nurses were commonly employed in upper - class households in the United States and Europe, particularly France, until the late 19th Century, when formula milk was not widely available.
Campaigns were launched against the custom among the higher class to use a wet nurse.
[18] In Europe (especially in France) and less in the USA it was a practice among the higher and middle class to hire a wet nurse.
In 17th century England, for instance, it was typically upper - class women who hired wet nurses, while working - class women nursed their own children.
The first is through wet - nursing, which used to be a respectable working - class profession (one in twenty babies born in Paris in 1780 was nursed exclusively by their own mother) and remains common in some parts of the world.