title: [Infant care in ancient Rome].
abstract: Children are seldom spoken of in Roman times. We know about medicine since long before the birth of Christ but it's not until the first century AD that there is a book that concerns with the nursing of a newborn child. The book is called Gynaecia and was written by Soranus who had studied medicine in Alexandria before he arrived at Rome. Soranus gives distinctive advice about the care of the newborn baby, especially when he talks about the wet-nurse. It seems that nearly none is good enough. Many of Soranus' advice about daily care of the baby remembers of the routines of the neonatal care of today, NIDCAP.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ahlsten
mesh_terms: D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care / Q000266:history*; D017283:Neonatal Nursing / Q000266:history*; D012384:Rome