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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![Corroding ulcers, o'er the palate creep. And with fell itchings eat the fauces deep, Unlefs you hafte the mortal feeds to kill Of the dire woe, and flop the fpreading ill. Tho' diff rent caufes this fad plague may bring, 245 It flows too often from the milky fpring, That breeds fliarp whey; and, when the infant draws. The frequent flux corrodes his tender jaws; Or from his indigefting ftomach comes A burning vapour on the mouth, and gums ; 250 And many methods cure the wounded part: For great is the refource of human art. But let the nurfe a mod'rate diet ufe To cleanfe the fountains, and correct the juice : Ver. 242. And -with fell itchings eat the fauces deep,'] This is commonly called canker of the mouth; and, if not timely pre- vented, may frequently degenerate into gangrene. It fome- times makes its appearance in the mouth ; at others, about the time of teething; which age, as the reader will find in the next paragraph, St. Marthe thinks it chiefly attacks.— It likewife *' appears when children are Ihedding their firft teeth, and the fecond are making their way through the gums, which are «« covered with little foul fores, and will fometimes extend to the «« infide of the lips, and the cheeks. Underwood, Vol. II. p. 34. K 4 This,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21958890_0333.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
