L'influence des nourrices sur la formation physique et morale des enfants qu'elles allaitent selon les médecins et moralistes espagnols des XVIème et XVIIème siècles

• Autores: Sarah Pech
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 43, Nº. 4, 2007 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Servants, Domestic Workers and Children. The Role of Domestic Personnel in the Upbringing and Education of the Master�s and Employer�s Children from the Sixteenth to Twenty-first Centuries .), págs. 493-507
• Idioma: francés
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  • Wet-nursing is a very old practice. In Spain, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it was mainly characteristic of nobility and administrative or intellectual elites, but tended to spread throughout society. Moralists, clergymen and medical writers tried to fight against wet-nursing and to convince �bad mothers� to breastfeed their babies instead of leaving them to poor wet nurses who lived in the countryside and had a very bad influence on children. Indeed, it has been commonly admitted, since Aristotle and Pliny, that milk transmits qualities and vices, and that wet nurses can corrupt the future morality and habits of the babies they feed.