Tag: Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
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“Blood made White”: The relationship between blood and breastmilk in early modern England
Jennifer EvansSara ReadUnited Kingdom The early modern body was thought to be composed of and ordered by an intricate balance of fluids, the most important of which was blood. Blood was universally understood to have two origins: the heart and the liver. Together with the brain, these organs formed what Galen called “the noble organs.”…