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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    To teach fit remedies, and all the tribe 5 Of woes, and dire difeafes, to defcribe, Is her laft labour, and muft: furely claim Her utmoft care, left Ihe decline in fame : Yet fuch their number, none the whole can know. Nor can we bring relief to ev'ry woe : 10 Hence thofe moft frequent I fhall only trace. Nor with uncertain wing purfue the chace ; Left, like a Mariner, in feas unknown, The Mufe by raging winds and waves be thrown On latent rocks, directing planets mifs, 15 And thus be fwallow'd in the vaft abyfs. O I bright Thymbrseus, if thy prefence fill The facred cliffs of thy maternal hill; If on her fummits you delight to walk. Or in the human form!, familiar talk, 20 As when of old the warbling lyre you ftrung. And on the laurell'd fhores of Peneus fung ; Great Ver. 22. And on the laurell'd Jfiores of Peneus fang j] Peneus, » celebrated river of ThelTaly, whofe banks were on each fide lliaded with laurel. Hence it was feigned that this river wiflied- to proteft the goddefs Latona, when llie was about to bring forth Apollo J and when all the rivers, mountains, and iflands ,of Greece, afraid of incurring the wrath of Juno, fled at her ap- proach: as the reader will find in tht; tranflation of the fourth, hymn