Since the last years of the 18 century, medical literature constructed an all-black image of women engaged in wet-nursing, as 'bearers of faulty traditional knowledge' Buchan, 1808, p. 357; they were depicted as ignorant and rude, clad in 'all errors and anxieties of the populace and most of its vices' Furió, 1881, p.
Desde finales del siglo XVIII, la literatura médica construyó una imagen absolutamente negativa de aquellas mujeres en tanto que 'receptora[s] de saberes tradicionales erróneos' Buchan, 1808, p. 357, ignorantes y rudas, adornadas con "todos los errores y preocupaciones del vulgo y no pocos resabios de sus vicios" Furió, 1881, p. 29.