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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    For this fit phyfic is the fureft guide, 21$ To make the fever thro' the bowels glide ; Nor be fhe flow the remedy t' endure. That, from her breaft, the child may draw his cure. But, when the fever burns with ardent heat. To calm its rage, and bring a gentle fweat, aao Give juice of citrons from th' Idalian wood ; The grateful acid purifies his blood; And oft his ftomach with that liquor fill, Which fair pomegranates, ripen'd well, diftill; Boil too the pleafing fap of eaftern canes 225 With plenteous water, with foft oil that drains From the ccerulean violet, produce The well-made compofition for his ufe; And, ere it cool, anoint his fwelling cheek. His throbbing temples, and his painful neck, 230 Or Ver. a 15. For this fit phyfic h the furefi guide,1 Some gentle laxative ftiould be given, both to the nurfe and the child, the mo- ment this dangerous complaint appears; which, by cleanfing the milk, and cooling the body of the infant, will frequently carry off the diforder, -without any confiderable eruption appearing in the mouth. • Ver. 232 And pour a UttU in his aching ears']. This fragrant and balfaraic fermentation will be found of great fervice in abating K 3 t^e