In Florence, Italy, near where I live, there is a convent from Renaissance times called Ospedale degli Innocenti, Hospital of the Innocents. At the end of a porch, a revolving stone wheel received babies who were unwanted or who couldn't be adequately cared for. Placed anonymously on the stone, the infant, with a turn of the wheel, would be brought silently inside where nuns and wet nurses could attend to it. In many cases an infant had some sort...
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