Comments on: Stephen Colbert is Right! (Sort of)

By: Marie

Marie — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:04:22 +0000

Thanks, ElleJune!

By: ElleJune

ElleJune — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:14:37 +0000

Hey Marie, the Biblical reference you are looking for is Ezekiel 16:4. It is about Jerusalem, but does suggest that this was a common practice with infants.

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:41:04 +0000

Salt is! I remember running across something in my research on Renaissance child care about how it was important to rub newborns with salt, and there was a reference (I think biblical?) to a text that was trying to describe how someone had been utterly abandoned as a baby: “thou wast not swaddled, nor salted at all.”

By: mordicai

mordicai — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:54:25 +0000

Kurlansky wrote a book called “Salt” detailing the impact salt has had on the world. I remember being in a BioOrg class at the same time as a BioAnth class & having the reality of the situation kind of dawn on me: salt is crazy important.