Thank you, Micaela, for that link. It seems one of the versions of the story
that I've seen was in the Getty Museum, outside Los Angeles.
In my most recent article, I cited an example of breastmilk (not
breastfeeding) having been provided to a terminal cancer patient, with the
full approval of her oncologist and her family. This happened recently.
http://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/nursing/index
Virginia 

Dr Virginia Thorley, OAM, MA, PhD, IBCLC, FILCA 
Cultural Historian of the History of Medicine
Brisbane, Qld, Australia 
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Micaela wrote: 
Here you find the story of Cimone and his daughter Pero
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Charity
and also many of the iconographic reference to the story (Rubens painted
many versions of it).

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