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Sealing children in walls, foundations of buildings, and bridges to strengthen the structure was also common from the building of the wall of Jericho to as late as 1843 in Germany.
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t was not until the fourth century that real change was apparent. The law began to consider killing an infant murder only in 374 A.D.
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Giovanni Dominici wrote that children after 3 years old could not see naked adults, this because despite being innocent, growing up in such acts will make them get used to it. -
The frequent hysterical fits of children
could often be cured by exorcising the
Devil out of them, as in this 1520 painting
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Swaddling was often so complicated it took up to two hours to dress an infant. -
two practices, however, were probably common to every country since antiquity. The first is the general scantiness of dress for “hardening” purposes; the second is the use of stool like devices which were supposed to assist walking, but in fact were used to prevent crawling, which was considered animal-like. -
hildren were given suppositories, enemas, and oral purges in sickness and in health. -
It was a late psychogenic stage is suggested by the fact that prohibitions against childhood masturbation are found in none of the primitive societies surveyed by Whiting and Child. -
clitoridectomy, and infibulation were sometimes used as punishment; and all sorts of restraint devices, including plaster casts and cages with spikes, were prescribed.
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dead babies were still a common sight in London streets.
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Diapers were an oven for babies, as they were wrapped around their entire body. The English led the way in ending swaddling, as they did in ending outside wet-nursing. Swaddling in England and America was on its way out by the end of the eighteenth century, and in France and Germany by the nineteenth century. -
he was the first to examine the wide extent of infanticide and brutality toward children in the past, particularly in antiquity
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these methods had almost completely died out, after two centuries of brutal and totally un-necessary assault on children’s genitals.