>Hello all Lactnetters!
>
>
>I have been away for a while but returning now with a little question. I am
>writing an article about the history of the breastfeeding. I have a
>faintest memory of reading somewhere that Julius Caesar (or maybe one of
>the other Roman writers) wrote in disapproving tone about women of nobility
>who did not breastfeed their children but gave them to wet nurses. I
>searched the archives but found nothing. Do anyone have a quote about this
>or do I just have to skip the idea?
>
>I am very thankfull of your help!


Um......Jean-Jacques Rousseau , French thinker, 18th century, so a
mere 1600 years after Julius ; ) , thought like this. Is this who you
mean????


Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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