An matribus prolem sanam lactare saluberrimum sit ? by DUFAUD (Antoine-Gabriel)

Montpellier, Joannem-Franciscum Picot, 1781. 4to. 13 pages. (1 blank leaf). Modern wrappers. First Edition of this dissertation on breastfeeding, in which the author comments on the mechanism of milk secretion in women, the composition of the mammary glands and the diseases likely to disturb the quality of milk. References to physicians and anatomists Barthez, Haller, Boerhaave, White, Zimmerman, etc. The author was originally from Clermont-Ferrand. Not in Rotschild, Bibliographie de l'allaitement et de l'hygiène du nourrisson (in: L'Allaitement Artificiel, Paris, 1898). Conlon, Le Siècle des Lumières, 81:1055.