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Title: | Portuguese Experiences of Artificial Infant Feeding in the Late Eighteenth Century |
Authors: | Abreu, Laurinda |
Editors: | Reinarz, Jonathan |
Keywords: | Artificial feeding Animal milk |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Publisher: | Food & History |
Citation: | Abreu, Laurinda, "Portuguese Experiences of Artificial Infant Feeding in the Late Eighteenth Century", Food & History 14, 1 - 2016, pp. 55 - 79. |
Abstract: | Infant feeding is an explanatory factor of infant mortality levels
in historical populations. The bacteriological revolution in the
early 1870s changed medical science and technologies in terms
of food production and ways in which infant populations were
fed. Even before that change, however, connections between food
and child health were being discussed in both the medical literature
and political institutions. How foundlings were fed was a
crucial issue in pre-industrial Europe. At that time, increasing
foundling numbers and difficulties in providing wet nursing,
due to the shortage of suitable women and financial constraints,
forced the authorities to take action to keep infant mortality
levels under control.
This article shows evidence of dry nursing strategies and practices
in Portugal in the late eighteenth century. It explores the relationship
between political and healthcare institutions, medical
knowledge and the living conditions of the infant population
and, more specifically, discusses the use of artificial feeding
in Portugal and the intervention of authorities such as the
Intendant-General of Police, Diogo Inácio de Pina Manique,
and his experiments with animal milk. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/21301 |
ISSN: | 1780-3187 |
Type: | article |
Appears in Collections: | CIDEHUS - Publicações - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais Com Arbitragem Científica
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