A collection of baby bottles spans more than two thousand years.
Megann Licskai is a PhD candidate in the History of Science and Medicine Program.
Anthony Decarlo/Yale School of Medicine
The baby bottles shown here date all the way back to the Roman Republic and all the way up to the twentieth century. School of Medicine professor emeritus Howard Fink has said he collected them because of his profession: “Any pediatrician would naturally be interested.” View full image
In an 1886 column for
Babyhood magazine, an anonymous writer from Northampton, Massachusetts, wrote, “I have never yet seen the baby who could not be well and strong and happy with . . . a sweet and