At Munich Escherich and Bueller found that nearly 60 per cent.

of women of the lower class were unable to suckle their children, and at Stuttgart three-quarters of the child-bearing women were in this condition.
The reasons why children should be suckled at their mothers' breasts are larger than some may be inclined to believe.

In the first place the psychological reason is one of no mean importance.

The breast with its exquisitely sensitive nipple, vibrating in harmony with the sexual organs, furnishes the normal mechanism by which maternal love is developed.

No doubt the woman who never suckles her child may love it, but such love is liable to remain defective on the fundamental and instinctive side.