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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    From one fcarce ended, fee ! another grow, And toil fucceed to toil, and woe to woe. Nor, were the Nine to grant a thoufand tongues, A thoufand mouths, a thoufand breathing lungs, Could 1 recount the woes, that ftill moleft 395 An infant's bowels, anddifturb his reft; That lie in ambufh, which no art can fhun. And threaten death ere life be well begun. Hence painful vomitings, dry coughs we find, And frightful dreams, that vex his feeble mind ; 400 Hence reftlefs watching, tho' the child you keep In quiet, ftill prevents refrefl^ing fleep. The fnowy fountains all thefe evils bring, When, gorg'd with milk, he furfeits on the fpring ; Nor can the weak ftomachic pow'rs digeft 405 The load, coUedled from the nurfe's breaft. But Ver. 406. I'he had^ coUeSledfrom the nurfe's breafi,'] Hence we may obferve how dangerous it is to give a fucking infant great quantities of panada, broth, and bread, &c. as is commonly done; and efpecially wlien labouring under any acute difeafe, of whicii teething may be reckoned one. The diet of the nurfe fliould Ukewife be carefully attended to, for which Dr. Under- /Wood gives the following direflions: an invariable attention *'(hould be paid to natural conflitution and habit; due allow- 5' ance being made for thefe, it may be faid that milk, broth, and white