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Anne Clements's posting on an instance of an ill adult man being nourished
on his wife's breastmilk in a recent historical book, will probably bring
out other examples from lactnetters. One I recall well, was a 'First Person
Award' article in the Reader's Digest in the early/mid- 1960s. Sorry I
don't have the article now, nor the date. The man was an American
serviceman shot down in Papua New Guinea. He became ill with a severe
infection and could not keep down any food. He could easily have died. The
village headman found a remedy - he organised for his wife to express a
cupful of breastmilk and bring it to the hut. The US serviceman kept down
the brestmilk and began to improve. Breastmilk was supplied till he was on
the mend.
I just came back onto Lactnet today, for a few days.
Cheers,
Virginia
in Brisbane.
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> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:03:40 +1000
> From: Anne Clements <>
> Subject: ill adults and breastmilk
>
> have just finished reading Virginia Henley's :A Year and a Day for the
2nd
> time.it was interesting to see that the main male character was encouraged
> to nurse from his wife's lactating breasts when he couldn't keep anything
> down after his major abdominal wounds during the English/Scottish
fighting
> at Irvine (scotland) - King Edward (Longshanks)Plantagenet's era.
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> Also the main female charcter insisted on breastfeeding her newborn son
> herself instead of having a wet nurse as most of the English upper class
> usually did.
>
> I don't know where Virginia Henley got her idea from but found it quite
> interesting after seeing the thread on ill adults /breastmilk here on
list.
>
> Anne Clements RN RM BNS
> Brisbane QLD
> Australia
>
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