Jonathon Swift advocated the eating of babies and children although he makes no inference to any medicinal benefits to powdered babies.

”I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...”

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