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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$But, if excruciating gripes begin To rend the bowels, and to gnaw within ; T' allay the torments, and the woe prevent, 323 With well-warm'd water the griev'd part foment; Or elfe anoint with oil of fragrant dill, Or, what the flow'rs of chamomile diftill, Or from old olives runs, plac'd o'er the fire : Thefework the cure, when pains their ufe require. 330 For mended in the text, may be of great fervlce, efpeclally m a diA eafe where, as Dr. Underwood remarks, diluting drinks lliould ireq\ient]y be given. And they become the more necefla'ry, if the child do not fuck, which often happens from the inflamma- tion of the mouth. Cyperusis a plant of the gramini-foltous kind ; the roots of which have been generally brought from Italy; but it is found wild in fome marlhy places in Englandi and has been accounted a good ftomachic, and carminative. The myrtle, fo much celebrated by poets, and facred to Venus, be- caufe its berries were fuppofed to excite certain paflions, is a na- tive of Italy, and cultivated in our botanic gardens. It is a mild aflringent; but both thefe plants are now little ufed in me^licine : not becaufe they want the virtues afcribed to them; but becaufe remedies change like fafliions ; and the old ones are laid afide for the fak€ of trying new ones, fuppofed to be endowed with the fame properties, in. an equal or fuperior degree. Ver. 330. The/e -work the cure, when pain: their ufe require. ] Fo mentations and warm bathing are often moft effedual m re moving$