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By the end of the eighteenth century, more
women have begun breastfeeding their own
babies than ever before (5). However, those mothers who choose
not to breastfeed may use a nutrient
substitute called pap. This is a glue-like
substance made of bread, water, milk, and
brown sugar. In Essay on the Diseases Most Fatal to Infants, a famous doctor, George Armstrong writes,
"I do not advise the dry nursing of
infants when they can be properly suckled,
yet I would not have parents to be discouraged
from trying it when it becomes requisite" (5). However, critics of pap call it "a
viscous and crude paste more proper to binders
to bind their books than for the nourishment
of infants" (6). Although breastfeeding is highly
recommended by most eighteenth century doctors,
many women, most of upper- and middle-classes,
who do not breastfeed their infants choose
to feed them the nutrient-rich pap as a substitute.
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