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Lidén Number 44
Respondent: Fredric Lindberg (1733-1779)
Title: Nutrix Noverca, ...
Date of Defense: 7 November 1752
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-20, [2]
Lidén Title: Nutrix noverca.
Soulsby Title: Nutr. noverca
Drake Title: Nutrix Noverca.
Note:
Abstract: An essay on the advantages of breast-feeding infants, in which it is stressed that diseases and temperaments are transmitted to the child via the mother's milk and that for this reason alone the use of wet nurses is discouraged.