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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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