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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    With gall of bulls, and Cummin's pallid feed, A plafter make, and o'er the belly fpread ; This proves a certain cure, nor need 1 mind 385 What other we from old phylicians find. Why fhould the Mufe rehearfe, in flowing ftrains. Each fell difeafe, tliat gives an infant pains ? So vaft their number, and fo thick they throng, That ev'n their names would form incefTant fong: 390 Ver. 385. This proves a certain cure ——.] This, or a fimilar remedy, has been adviled by all fucceeding phylicians; and Dr. Underwood prefcribes much the fame, only changing the plafter into, an ointment. Cummin feeds are chiefly im- ported from Sicily and Malta. They are accox^nted good carmi- natives and ftomachics; but are now, in a great meafure, laid afide, on account of their difagreeable flavour. Their principal ufe is in external applications, as a warm difcutient, antiieptic, and anthelmintic ; for which purpofe they are fo ftrongly recom- mended by St. Marthe. And fmce he declares, from his own experience, as one would think, that this plarter, with femen fantonicum taken inwardly, prove a certain cure, I can fee no reafon why they fliould not be perf.fted in, inftead of peftering the child with chymical remedies; which, though they may prove equally effedtual, muftbe much more pernicious to the bow- els. It is well obferved, by Dr. Underwood, that throughout the cure, and afterwards, the diet fhould be^ftriiSIy attended to, and all fat and greafy aliments abil:ained from. I he child fhould live upon milk, broths, and meats of eafy digeftion, witii toafted bread and honey, injiead of butter^ luhich is exceedingly jjemicious. Vol. I. p. 155. L From