[ **up: [[Law--Babylonia]]** ] --- # *Code of Hammurabi* ## Wet nurses [[2024-0414. 'If a man give his son to a nurse and that son die in the hands of the nurse'. (Code of Hammurabi).|'⁌ If a man give his son to a nurse and that son die in the hands of the nurse, and the nurse substitute another son without the consent of his father or mother, they shall call her to account, and because she has substituted another son without the consent of his father or mother, they shall cut off her breast.']][^1] [^1]: Robert Francis Harper (ed.), *The Code of Hammurabi King of Babylon about 2250 B.C.* (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1904), n.p. https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/hammurabi-the-code-of-hammurabi.