Breast-feeding animals have been practiced in many different cultures for many time periods. Breastfeeding or feeding practices between humans and other species have occurred in both directions: females sometimes nursing young animals, and animals are used to feed infants and children. Animals are used instead of wet nurses for infants, especially after the onset of syphilis increases the risk of wet breastfeeding health. Goats and donkeys are widely used to feed abandoned babies in hospitals found in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. Breastfeeding has also been practiced, whether for health reasons - such as strengthening the nipple and increasing the flow of milk - or for religious purposes and culture. A wide variety of animals have been used for this purpose, including puppies, kittens, piglets and apes.
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The terracotta milk bottle that survives from the third millennium BC in Sumeria shows that children who are not breast-fed receive animal milk, probably from cows. It is possible that some babies directly feed the mammals, which serve as an alternative to wet nurses. Unless other breastfeeding women are available, a breastfed mother is quite likely to lose her child. To prevent that possibility if a wet nurse is not available, animals such as donkeys, cattle, goats, sheep or dogs can be employed. Direct feeding is better milking and milking, as contamination by microbes during the milking process can cause babies to contract deadly diarrheal diseases. It was not until the late 1870s that storing animal milk became safe to drink due to the discovery of pasteurization and sterilization.
Mythology and stories
Breastfeeding by infants is a recurring theme in classical mythology. Most notably, Romulus's and Remus's twin brothers (formerly established Romans) are described as having been bred by a female wolf nursing a baby, as depicted in the iconic image of the Capitoline Wolf. The Greek god Zeus is said to have been raised by Amalthea, described as a goat sucking a god or as an angel bringing it to his goat's milk. Likewise, Telephus, the son of the half-gods Heracles, has been fed by a deer. Some famous ancient historical figures claimed to have been fed by animals; Cyrus I of Persia is said to have been breast-fed by dogs, while horses allegedly breast-feed Croesus, Xerxes and Lysimachus. But in fact, such stories may contain more myths about prominent figures, because they are used as proof of their future greatness.
Stories of abandoned children raised by animal mothers such as wolves and bears were widespread in Europe from the Middle Ages and into modern times. One real-life case is the case of Peter the Wild Boy, discovered in northern Germany in 1724. His curly coarse hair is linked to its existence (supposedly) fed by a bear, based on the premise that the characteristics of the animal's host mother have transmitted to him through his milk. (Now he thinks he has Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, a condition not known until 1978).
The perceived effect on the character
The belief that animal characteristics can be transmitted through milk is widely held; Swedish scientist, Carl Linnaeus, thinks that breastfed by a lioness gives great courage. Goats are considered to emit libidinous characters and some prefer to employ donkeys as wet nurses, as they are considered more moral. But in modern Egypt, donkeys are not favored as wet nurses because it is assumed that a child who suckles with a donkey's milk gets the stupidity and ferocity of the animal.
Quranic teachings do not give infant animal milk on the grounds that animal properties can be transmitted along with it, although the Jewish Talmud allows children to breastfeed animals if the welfare of children dictates. Human milk is also considered to emit character traits; in the 19th century France, a law was proposed to forbid bad mothers from breastfeeding their own children so that their immoral properties would not be transmitted through their milk.
Use of goats and other animals
Goats are often used for breastfeeding babies and human infants. Khoikhoi southern Africa is reportedly binding their babies with goat's stomachs so they can feed there. In the 18th and 19th centuries, goats were widely used in Europe as an alternative to human wet nurses, as they were more accessible, less expensive to use and safer, as they were less susceptible to disease. The use of these animals is already an established practice in rural France and Italy; Pierre Brouzet, personal physician Louis XV of France, wrote of how he had seen "some peasants who had no other nurse except sheep, and these peasants were as strong and strong as the others." In 1816, a German writer named Conrad A. Zweirlein heard a conversation in a fashionable resort on the subject of a wet nurse and responded by writing a book entitled The Goat as the Best and Most Revered Wet Nurse who popularized the use of animals for years.
One of the important uses of goats for breastfeeding is feeding and healing efforts of babies born with congenital syphilis inherited from their mothers. Liquid compounds mixed with mercury are fed to guardian goats - if they refuse to take it, honey is recommended as a way of disguising the taste of metal - or ingested into the goat blood stream through intentionally induced wounds on the legs of animals covered with mercury-containing ointment. Mercury will accumulate in goat's milk and pass to syphilis babies as they feed into goats' nipples. This method does have some effects of increasing infant mortality, although goats tend to die prematurely due to mercury poisoning.
In France, home to tributaries (abandoned babies) often keep large goats to feed babies, as they are considered less problematic than low-wet nurses. In some institutions, nurses (caregivers) take babies to goats; elsewhere, goats come to babies. Alphonse Le Roy describes how goats were used in hospitals in Aix-en-Provence in 1775: "Cribs are arranged in large rooms in 2 ranks.Every goats who come to feed will bleat and go to hunt for babies who have been given , pushed back the cover with its horns and straddled the bed to suck the baby, and since then they have collected an enormous amount [of infants] in the hospital. "
In 19th-century Ireland, the founders of Dublin were sent to the Wicklow mountains to feed goat's milk, as the children grew, the goats began to recognize them, and became so tame that the baby sought goats, and had been fed as a wet human nurse should do. "These children are extraordinary." Donkeys are preferred in England; as one writer put it, "there is nothing more beautiful than the spectacle of a baby, held beneath a donkey's belly in a cage next to the infant's ward, sucking satisfiedly on the nipples of benign donkeys." In Brittany, attempts were made around 1900 to employ pigs as wet nurses but foundered for opposing the use of pigs for this purpose.
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Breastfeeding by animal humans
Breastfeeding by animal humans is a practice that is widely proven historically and continues to be practiced today by some cultures. The reasons vary: feeding young animals, drying women's breasts, promoting lactation, hardening the nipples before the baby is born, preventing conception, and so on.
English and German physicians between the 16th and 18th centuries recommended using puppies to "draw" the mother's breasts, and in 1799 German Friedrich Benjamin Osiander reported that in GÃÆ'¶ttingen women breast-feeding young dogs to eject nodules from their breasts. Examples of practices used for health reasons came from England in the 18th century. When the author Mary Wollstonecraft died of a puerperal fever after the birth of his second daughter, the doctor ordered that the puppy be applied to her breasts to remove the milk, perhaps in order to help her uterus contract to expel the infected placenta. slowly poison it.
Animals have been widely used to strengthen the nipples and keep the mother's milk supply. In Persia and the Turkish puppies were used for this purpose. The same method was practiced in the United States at the beginning of the 19th century; William Potts Dewees recommended in 1825 that from the eighth month of pregnancy, expectant mothers should regularly use puppies to harden the nipples, increase breast secretions and prevent breast inflammation. The practice appeared to be no longer favored in 1847, because the Dewees advised to use nurses or other skilled people to perform this task than the animals.
The reasons for religion and ceremony are also factors. Saint Veronica Giuliani (1660-1727), an Italian nun and mystic, is known for carrying a sheep to bed with her and sucking it as a symbol of the Lamb of God. In northern Japan, Ainu people are renowned for holding an annual bear festival in which the bears that are captured, raised and breast-fed by women, are sacrificed.
The bears are also fed by Itelmens from the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia but in their case for economic reasons, to benefit from the meat when the bear is planted and to obtain bear bile which is very valuable for use in traditional medicine.
Tribal societies around the world have been feeding many species of animals. Tourists in Guyana observe native women feeding various animals, including monkeys, opossums, pacas, agoutis, planters and deer. Native Canadians and Americans often breastfeed young dogs; an observer commented that the Pima people in Arizona "pulled their breasts faster than their own babies rather than from young dogs."
On this day, the act of lactating animals has been used as an sometimes controversial artistic statement. Album art for Boys for Pele by Tori Amos includes photos of singers nursing a piglet. In Ireland, the 22-year-old model and PETA member Agata Dembiecka became the focus of controversy in 2010 when the calendar issued by the animal rescue agency featured a picture of her breastfeeding child.
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