Table of Contents

1. Wet Nursing in Antiquity c.3000 BC - 300 AD: the Ancient Near East and India ; 2. Wet Nursing in Antiquity c900 BC - c.700 AD: Greece and Rome ; 3. Wet Nursing in the Mediterranean World c.400 - c.1200 ; 4. The Wet Nurse in Medieval Europe c.1050 - c.1450 ; 5. The Renaissance Wet Nurse: the Case of Florence c.1350 - c.1550 ; 6. Wet Nursing in the Renaissance c.1450 - c.1600 ; 7. The English Wet Nursing System in the Seventeenth Century ; 8. The Occupational Diseases of Wet Nurses c.1700 ; 9. Wet Nursing in the Eighteenth Century ; 10. Wet Nursing in Colonial America ; 11. The Nursing of Infants Abandoned and Lost ; 12. The Nursing of Infants Abandoned and Lost: the Case of the London Foundling Hospital in the Eighteenth Century ; 13. The Demise of the Wet Nurse c.1800 - c.1914 ; 14. Wet Nursing in the Modern World c.1900 to the Present