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Dear friends in Lact-land,
While the milk ejection topic is being discussed I would like to share with you a small set of slides that were given to me, under the heading "Milk release in animals and humans by causing oxytocin discharge".  The source of the collection is a retired professor of Veterinary Medicine, Wolfgang  Jöchle, who lives in New Jersey, and who has shared much of my interest in understanding breastfeeding.

1 *The creation of the milky way* by PP Rubens (1577-1640) (National Museum, Brussels, Belgium).  The approaching child (Hercules nursed by Hera) causes milk let-down and spillage - the milky way.
2 *The creation of the milky way* by Tintoretto (1518-1594).  Suckling caused spillage of milk from both breasts.
3 *La Virgin y las Animas del Purgatorio* from Pecho Machuca (Spanish, 17th Century). Pardo, Madrid.  Here Christ as a boy stimulates milk release from both breasts of Mary by stimulating only one.  The spilled milk is eagerly awaited by souls suffering in the purgatory (shown at the bottom of the picture), since it obviously brings release.  
4 *Mars and Venus united in love* by Paolo Veronese (1518-1588), Metropolitan Museum, New York.  Venus (naked) is spilling milk, in the embrace of Mars (fully clothed). 
5 *Anotomical drawing* Leonardo daVinci (1452-1519).  Collection of HM the Queen, Royal Library, Windsor Castle, England. The drawing is of a copulating couple, showing a duct (which was thought to exist) between the woman's uterus and her nipple.  Milk is spilled during sexual intercourse as a result of the penis acting as a 'pump'.  The milk which nourished the child in the womb continued to nourish the suckling child.
6 *Milking cows* by Kolbe (1719) - Hottentots, South Africa.  The drawing shows a woman milking the cow while another person blows air into the cow's vagina.
7 *Milking cows* by the Denkas in Kenya (1936).  This slide seems to be a photograph showing a boy on his knees, blowing air into the vagina of the cow, the purpose being to stimulate milk ejection.

Joy Johnston, Midwife IBCLC
Melbourne Australia

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