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Wet nurses - History

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12 works

    • Student dissertations

    Got milk? : a transition between wet-nursing and breastfeeding in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Amanda Rea.

    | Rea, Amanda. | Date: 2009
    • Student dissertations

    The histories of wet-nursing and surrogate motherhood compared - did history repeat itself ? / a dissertation by Vinnie Sodhi.

    | Sodhi, Vinnie. | Date: 1990
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    Les nourrices et leurs bureaux de placement parisiens (1184-1792) la "Declaration du roy" de 1715 / par Émile Rivière.

    | Rivière, Émile (Émile Valère) | Date: 1916
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    Infection of the innocents : wet nurses, infants, and syphilis in France, 1780-1900 / Joan Sherwood.

    | Joan Sherwood | Date: [2010]
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    Selling mothers' milk : the wet-nursing business in France, 1715-1914 / George D. Sussman.

    | Sussman, George D., 1943- | Date: [1982]
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