Our video today about antiquity, Jumped from the medieval era to the victorian era that occurred in the 19th century. Let's talk about a baby bottle made at that time that took the lives of hundreds of babies. If you are interested in books with curiosities from the Middle Ages and antiquity, we leave some links in the video description.
Choose a title and see several curiosities of our ancestors. Well, we already know that the 19th century it was a phase of great discoveries. While the whole world was in chaos in many areas, the Victorians in the United Kingdom created things that are very important to us today, such as photographs and the toilet.
But, they often made mistakes! A famous event in the health area at the time was the death of hundreds of babies, precisely, first years of manufacturing the new bottle format. Once the glassware began to gain space in the house of common people, great news appeared and revolutionized baby feeding.
In 1845 it was the launch of a peculiar glass feeding bottle equipped with rubber tubes and a nursing nipple The idea was for the baby to suck as if taking a juice through a straw. And in a time when you needed care for using corset, or even feed it using one, it was considered a real challenge to keep the home and personal appearance in perfect condition. So these different bottles were soon a popular success and cost the company to account for the market demand.
The bottles quickly ended up despite the high price at which they were offered. There was a strong marketing campaign, there was a mother who did not love the novelty. It was absolutely amazing that the baby could feed itself while sitting.
A success in life of modern mothers of the 19th century. But, unfortunately, it didn't take long for such a bottle to become something fatal. The feeder bottle had a dangerous design problem: The rubber tube was fused to the cup lid and was certainly impossible to clean properly.
and was certainly impossible to clean properly. We now know that a bottle so full of hot milk and sugar, was a culture of bacteria. so full of hot milk and sugar, was a culture of bacteria.
On top, the writer Isabella Beeton who had great influence on women and was the author of guide books for housewives, gave absolutely wrong advice. gave absolutely wrong advice.
