I shall wave considering _the Propriety_ of a Mother’s giving suck through a Sense of the _incumbent Duty_ she _owes_ her child.—Though the Custom of backening the Milk is _unnatural_, dangerous, and too often _fatal_, I shall lay no stress on the former, but rest it entirely on the latter—for in _such_ an Age as the present, in which our fine Ladies have few Ideas of any Religion—are not capable of receiving Pleasure from _domestick_ Employments—would infinitely rather CONVERSE with _any Men_ than their _Husbands_—leave their Children to be instructed, or _neglected_ by Servants, and fly abroad, with eager Impatience _to game away_ their Husbands Fortunes, and receive the _criminal_ Addresses of _their profligate_ Admirers, at the Assembly, the Masquerade, or more _commodious Apartments_ of _the Coterie_—laughing at the Censures of _the few_ who have still some Regard to Decorum—and despising the Belief of the perpetual Presence of a Being who is Witness to all their _secret vicious Deformities_—in _such_ times it would be Folly to mention the Dangers they expose their Infants to, from diseased Milk, want of a tender Mother’s Care—or dream of asking them how they will answer to the Almighty for _not_ having afforded them the Nourishment He kindly provided for their Support?—I shall therefore only shew the Absurdity and _danger_ of this Custom, as far as it regards the Health of _the Mother_. And here I must endeavour to give my Readers some Idea of that part of the human Body which is concern’d in the formation, and absorbtion of the Milk, in order for their understanding the Force of my arguments. Our Bodies are constantly, when in Health, receiving Repairs in all their Parts, from millions of the smallest, most minute Arteries. Every Solid, and every Juice, is form’d out of, and secreted from, Blood. Those noxious Parts of the Blood which are not proper for these different, _opposite_ Uses, are thrown off by insensible Perspiration. When, through various Causes, that Perspiration is obstructed, the acrid Matter which ought to have gone off, is absorb’d by the lymphatick Vessels, and returns into the Blood—brings on Fevers, Gout, Rheumatism, &c. &c.