“Blood made White”: the relationship between blood and breastmilk in early modern England
Jennifer Evans Sara Read United Kingdom Womb (uterus), enlarged, Hendrik Bary, after Reinier de Graaf, 1672, Rijksmuseum. 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 […]