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The bureau of wet nurses in Paris - wet nurses waiting to be selected. Aquatint after C. Brocas, 1822.
Brocas, Charles, 1774-1835.Date: 1822Reference: 17481i- Books
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Infant asylum, for the preserving of the lives, of children of hired wet-nurses, and others: and for the removing of the risks and difficulties in obtaining healthy and reputable wet-nurses, and experienced dry-nurses.
Infant Asylum (London, England)Date: 1799- Books
Infants, parents and wet nurses : medieval Islamic views on breastfeeding and their social implications / by Avner Giladi.
Gilʻadi, Avner, 1947-Date: 1999- Books
Infection of the innocents : wet nurses, infants, and syphilis in France, 1780-1900 / Joan Sherwood.
Sherwood, Joan, 1929-Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
Black women slaves who nourished a nation : artistic renderings of wet nurses in Brazil / Kimberly Cleveland.
Cleveland, KimberlyDate: [2019]- Books
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The practice of hiring wet nurses (especially those from the "fallen") considered as it affects public health and public morals / [M.A. Baines].
Baines, M. A.Date: [1859?]- Pictures
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The foundling hospital of the Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome: wet-nurses looking after the babies, and Pope Sixtus IV ordering the rebuilding. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?) after a fresco painting.
Ditta Vasari Fotografo Editore.Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 665025i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0003497: Reproduction of a photograph of ancient Egyptian contract for a wet nurse
Date: 30 May 1933Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/28/79Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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The book of household management : comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen-maid, butler, footman, coachman, valet, upper and under house-maids, lady's maid, maid-of-all-work, laundry-maid, nurse and nurse-maid, monthly, wet, and sick nurses, etc. etc. also, sanitary, medical, & legal memoranda with a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things connected with home life and comfort / by Mrs Isabella Beeton.
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865.Date: 1861- Books
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The practice of hiring wet nurses (especially those from the 'fallen') considered, as it affects public health and public morals : a paper contributed to the Public Health Department of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at the Bradford meeting, October, 1859.
Baines, Mary Anne.Date: [1859]- Digital Images
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Wet-nurse, from "De arte medica infantium libri quatuor", Ferrarius 1577
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A wet-nurse dressed in Neapolitan costume holding a baby. Watercolour by M. de Sate.
Sate, M. de.Reference: 17699i- Digital Images
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Wet nurse with child, by Franz Hals, 1580-1666
Franz Hals- Books
Wet-nurse markets and agencies / Dr. D.
Deruisseau, L. G.Date: 1940- Books
The revolt of the wet-nurse / [Benjamin Ward Richardson].
Richardson, Benjamin Ward, 1828-1896Date: 1895- Pictures
A wet nurse breast feeding the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. Engraving.
Reference: 17440i- Pictures
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An old wet nurse; symbolising France as nanny-state and public health provider. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, 1901.
Dorville, Noël, 1874-1938.Date: 1901Reference: 17008i- Pictures
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A girl is brought by an old woman to visit her former foster-mother and wet nurse in a cottage. Engraved by E. Mohn after M. Ritscher.
Ritscher, Moritz (Gottlob Moritz), 1827-1875.Date: [1878]Reference: 27720i- Books
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The compleat servant-maid: or, the young maiden's and family's daily companion. Directing them how they may fit themselves for any of these employments ; viz. waiting-woman, house keeper, chamber-maid, wet and dry nurses, house-maid, cook-maid, under-cook maid, scullery-maid, laundry-maid, dairy-maid. Whereunto is added, an appendix or supplement, containing rules and directions for writing several sorts of hands; how to learn addition and subtraction, with a multiplication-table. Also the compleat market-woman; teaching how to buy fowl, fish, flesh, &c. and to know their goodness and badness in every respect, whether young or old, new or stale, to prevent being cheated. With tables ready cast up, necessary for all servants or others to carry to market to prevent the butchers imposing on them, or for any other business.
Date: 1729- Pictures
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An infant who has been living with a wet-nurse being taken away from its foster-parents by its natural mother. Etching by R. De Launay (Delaunay), 1780, after E. Aubry.
Aubry, Etienne, 1745-1781Date: [1780]Reference: 46825i- Books
Breastfeeding and wet nursing / Valerie Fildes.
Fildes, Valerie.Date: 1986- Books
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The nurse's guide: or short and safer rules for the management of women of each rank and condition in child-bed. With directions about the choice of a wet-nurse. In a dialogue betwixt a surgeon and a nurse. By the author of the Midwife rightly instructed.
Dawkes, Thomas.Date: 1744- Books
Wet nursing from antiquity to the present / Valerie Fildes.
Fildes, Valerie A.Date: 1988- Pictures
A wet-nurse attempts to breast feed John the Baptist who is held by the Virgin(?); Elizabeth is recovering in bed, Zacharias looks on proudly. Engraving.
Reference: 17364i- Student dissertations
The histories of wet-nursing and surrogate motherhood compared - did history repeat itself ? / a dissertation by Vinnie Sodhi.
Sodhi, Vinnie.Date: 1990