Valerie Fildes, Wet nursing: a history from antiquity to the present, Oxford and New York, Basil Blackwell, 1988, 8vo, pp. xx, 300, £19.50/$34.95.

Jenny West

doi:10.1017/S0025727300049401

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Valerie Fildes, Wet nursing: a history from antiquity to the present, Oxford and New York, Basil Blackwell, 1988, 8vo, pp. xx, 300, £19.50/$34.95.

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Jenny West

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Information: Medical History , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , April 1989 , pp. 265 - 266

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