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. 2022 May;38(2):344-350.
doi: 10.1177/08903344221082674. Epub 2022 Mar 30.

Historical Research: More Than Milk: The Origins of Human Milk Banking Social Relations

Tanya M Cassidy  1
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Historical Research: More Than Milk: The Origins of Human Milk Banking Social Relations

Tanya M Cassidy. J Hum Lact. 2022 May.
No abstract available

Keywords: breastfeeding; donor milk; historical research; human milk; lactation; milk bank; prematurity.

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Disclosures and Conflicts of Interest: The author declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Figure 1.
Canned Mother’s Milk. Note. From Washington Post (1909, p. M1).
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Figure 2.
Lion Incubator in Use Attended by Dr. Lion, 1896. Note. From the Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Figure 3.
A Gavage. Note. From Tarnier et al., 1888, p. 276.
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Figure 4.
Boston’s Floating Hospital, 1910, p.43. Note. Thanks to the Boston Public Library.
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Figure 5.
Boston Floating Hospital Annual Report 1907, p. 61. Note. Thanks to the Boston Public Library.
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