I think that the real concern is not that Mrs Beeton was dead by the time
the present form of her book was compiled and published by her husband, nor
is it that she probably never invented or tested and of the recipes.
And yes, the likelihood is that the book's section on child raising was
copied wholesale from other publications. What this proves, however, is that
she was not alone in believing that human milk and the breastfeeding process
was unreliable. She was simply reflecting the mores of her own culture, one
which had already, in the mid 1800s, began to believe in the superiority of
artificial substitutes to human milk, this at a time in history when almost
all babies who were not breastfed, died.

norma

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