Paedotrophia, or, The art of nursing and rearing children. A poem, in three books / translated from the Latin of Scevole de St. Marthe ; with medical and historical notes; with the life of the author, from the French of Michel and Niceron ... by H.W. Tytler.

Date:
1797
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Credit: Paedotrophia, or, The art of nursing and rearing children. A poem, in three books / translated from the Latin of Scevole de St. Marthe ; with medical and historical notes; with the life of the author, from the French of Michel and Niceron ... by H.W. Tytler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ARGUMENT qp BOOK UL The third and lafl Book treats of the Difeafes of fiickin infants, the caiifes and cure of which are particularly defcriberh and ,t ^iU he found that afmoft every remedy mentioned in m uk, and approved of by the ableft praaitioners. The book begms. with a new invocatioa to Apollo, which fo ferions a ^ibjea requu-ed ; then feme general relle6iions on the unhappy ^ate.f France in tl.o<e tinges; and ,f^,r that the defcription of m t? r* O^^'- Tongue. 1 LTheRanula. IV. The Aphth., or Thrum. V. Teethh,.. ^ I. aforders ot the Bowels. V]I. Worms. VIII Eruntion - .^eSkin. IX. TheS^alNPo,. i„ ..hich the poef « death of two children of his own, brought on ^ ^^ ^uflly exploded hot regi..en, which he conden.ns in the 7,1 I en., and ady.es the cool treatn-.ent at prefect in nfe an : .11 P ^ficra,.. X. The Epilepfy; which is introduced b n Fpilod, of Hercules, and the dnpol^ter of P^on , ' A.d th. .hole concludes with goo ^Xsl ^ Z Jienry ill. hi. Queen, and the country