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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$This caufes vicious blood more balmy grow, 255 Amends, the milk, nor makes it lefs to flow. Or try t' oercome the raging ulcer's force, That fheds black poifon in its dreadful courfe. By pounded violets, that well you ftir With Gallic honey, and Orontian myrrh; 260 Thin galls allay the pain the child endures. And bark of Nabathaean incehfe cures. But thefe diftempers chief infeft the age. When growing teeth muft all your care engage. Vcr. 260. ' ■ Orontian mjrrk.'\ The Orontes is a large river of Syria, rifmg in mount Libanus, and difcharging jtfelf by Antioch into the fea, on the banks of which numbers of thofe trees are found that diftil the beft fpecies of myrrh. Ver. 262. ^fiel bark of Nahathaan incen/e cures.] The bark of the tree, which fweats the Arabian gum, and fo called from Nabatene, anotlier name for Arabia Felix, from Nabaioth, the eldeft fon of Ifmael. The remedies mentioned, being mildly detergent and aftringent, are well calculated to flop the progrefs of this frequently fatal complaint. If they fhould fail, Peruvian bark mufl be ufed, according to the direftions that will be given by the attending phylicians. Gall-nuts, fo judicioufly advifed in the text, have been faid to produce cures even when the Pe- ruvian bark has failed ; and a mixture of galls with a bitter and aromatic has been propofed as a fubftitute for it. When$