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The Milk of Life

Gastropod

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Wet Nurses

Before the nineteenth century, most married women were spending decades of their lives bearing children or nursing. A lot of lactating people around rome chose to employ a wet nurse. And wetnesses were often slaves. So this was a choice option when we're looking at very wealthy populations. In europe, there was pressure to produce a lot of errors.

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