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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    Short hulky coughs the lab'ring lungs moleft, iVnd grievous itchings oft the nofe infeft. Wherefore]you muft, t' avert this direful woe, 375 By fome fit means expell the latent foe : And warming bitters beft deftroy the brood. For they.deteft all aromatic food ; Ufe chief the chaffy feed, renown'd in fame. That from the worms themfelves derives its name : 380 This you may give, in apple-pulp with eafe. Or mix'd with gruel, or what food you pleafe. Ver. 374. And grievous itchings oft the nofe infeft.] Thefe are the moft common fymptoms of worms in young children; to which I fliall only add, that a dark hollow circle frequently ap- pears round the eyes, and that the cough is an a!moft conftant fymptom, when the difeafe is of long flanding, and has much injured the health. Underw. Vol. I. Ver. 380. T^hat from the 'worms themfelves derives its name;] Semen Santonicum, commonly called worm-feed, from its an- thelmintic virtues. It grows on a fpecies of mug-wort found in Saintonge, in prance, the country of the ancient Santones, and hence the name Santonicum. The kind ufed in Britain is com- monly brought from the Levant; but that fold in the Ihops is faid, many times, not to be genuine. It has been celebrated in all ^^s-for expelling worms, for whith it is particularly adapted, te^ng at once bitter, aromatic, and purgative. Widi