ABSTRACT
The chapter opens with a case study of one of the earliest medical manuals on maternal and infant care in ‘tropical’ India, Surgeon Frederick Corbyn’s Management and Diseases of Infants (1828). Thereafter, it goes on to discuss the general climate of medical and popular opinion about the nursing of European infants in the tropical environment of India, followed by a spotlight on, previously underexplored, Surgeon-Major Francis Roberts Hogg’s childcare advice in detail. It closes with a discussion about artificial foods versus wet nursing of infants and a summary of the main arguments of the chapter.
