Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School by Ruben E. Verwaal

Author:Ruben E. Verwaal
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030515416
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

The advice that maternal breastfeeding would save the mother from a certain degree of discomfort certainly pointed in a clear direction. Yet the weighing of both the benefits and drawbacks of breastfeeding left room for readers to make up their own mind. This contrasted sharply with Schutte’s more proscriptive language and explicitly prescriptive content. Structured in the form of questions and answers, his reply to query 334, ‘Is a mother obliged to suckle her child?’, obviously was a very normative ‘yes’, because:

Nature gives the mother, after deliverance, to that end, the milk in the breasts, so that she would feed her child with it. If she does not, yet able to do so, she acts against the intention of the all-wise Creator, and against the laws of nature, and she robs the child of the nourishment which best matches its nature, is the most appropriate, and given by the Creator. 2. If she presents her child to a wet-nurse, [she leads the child] towards many hazards, of the mind, as well as of the body, and of health.71

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