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

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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$The balmy floods to fharper humours turn, And fret the lldn, and make the wound to burn. Excite new tumults in his infant-veins, ^ And thus inflame, inftead of eaflng pains. 130 While, in the womb, the feeble captive lay. He threv/, by this, redundant juice away ; And Nature, that flie might his health rqftore. Would flill purfue the path flie trod before. But the fore navel lets no humour pafs, 135 And fwells with water, clear, as melted glafs. Hence, if aught hurtful fliall retard its cure^ (And many \voes muft human^kind endure,) The chryftal tube its turgid veins extends 5 With painful fl:retching from the child depends, 140 Aflii6ts his tender body with its weight. And feems a growing rupture to the,fight. Where»- Ver. 130. And thus inflame, inftead of eajlng farns,] This is ex- actly the theory of inflammation given by Boerhaave and Van Swietenj to which is now added Dr. Cullen's well-known fyftem of Spafm. And I cannot help remarking, that St. Marthc, in a dozen Latin verfes, gives a complete ideg of what Van Swieten extends to a volume, Ver 142. And feems a gro'-xing rupture to the fgbt.'] Thefe dif- orders of the umbilicus rarely occura unlefs fome very great$