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world. For it is well known, that an afs will 
foon grow dry, if her foal is not permitted to 
fuck part of the milk every day, but fhe is not 
a ruminating animal. 
The human milk cannot long be preferved 
in the breads, without the child be permitted 
to fuck. It otherwife foon acquires a bad faltifh 
fade, and, in a fhort time, leaves them entirely ; 
and this will happen, if the child alone fucks, 
if it be not permitted to fuck four or five 
times a day. T hree times a day I find is, in ge¬ 
neral, not fufficient to keep the milk good, and 
in proper quantity. I do not mean to fay, that 
it is impoffible, in any fubjed whatever, to keeD 
the milk without a child fucking conftantly. 
1 believe there have been indances of fudion by 
perfons, above the age of infancy, and even by 
puppies, keeping the milk for fome time; but 
thefe may, in fome meafure, be confidered in 
the light of adopted children. What I would 
wifh to enforce is, that the mod dexterous and 
mod flcilful women, who draw breads, do not 
keep the milk without the adidance of the child ; 
and when I have particularly defired them to 
do it, they have not been able, though they have 
fwallowed the milk, and repeated the fudion 
four or five times a day. 
Capivaccius, it is faid, faved the only heir 
of a noble family by ordering him to lie between 
tw.o 
