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Communities of cross-feeders

A desire to help leads some women to “cross-feed” – breastfeed other parents’ babies for free. Alev Scott delves into the emotions behind this altruistic act.

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The ‘epileptic’ in art and science

From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.

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Confusion, guilt, and the battle to breastfeed

Most new mums are told that breast is best. But breastfeeding doesn’t always come as easily or naturally as you might imagine.

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Milk trails round Euston

Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.

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  • The pig: a treatise on the breeds, management, feeding, and medical treatment, of swine; with directions for salting pork, and curing bacon and hams / By William Youatt. Illustrated with engravings drawn from life by William Harvey, esq.
  • The pig: a treatise on the breeds, management, feeding, and medical treatment, of swine; with directions for salting pork, and curing bacon and hams / By William Youatt. Illustrated with engravings drawn from life by William Harvey, esq.
  • A wood carving of a woman feeding her baby. Watercolour, 19--.
  • British Medical Journal Jan-June 1894
  • Fry's celebrated cocoa and chocolates / [J.S. Fry & Sons].
  • A hen with a deformed face, supposedly like a human one: three views. Wood engraving.
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