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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    What makes this fell difeafe on infants come, 465 Is vicious blood imbib'd, when in the womb, Which pox and meafles made their firfl appearance in Arabia. By this year he means that of the birth of Mahomet, which was the year of Chrift 572. Difcourfe on the fmall-pox, Chap. I. So that the fame year gave birth to the two fevereft calamities of man- kind, the greateft of impoftors, and the molt fatal of difeafes. Ver. 466. Is vicious Mood imbi¥dy njjJien in the nuomb,'] This is agreeable to the theory of Avicenna, and other Arabian phyfi- cians, who fuppofe the feeds of the fmall-pox to be inherent in the body, and that they, are made aflive by contagion; which feems a very rational account of the difeafe. The only difficulty is, whence came the firil contagion? To this queflion Dr. Mead has giyen a very full anfwer. And as that learned phyfician has treated the fubjed in a complete and elegant manner, I beg leave to give the following extraft from the chapter already quoted; *' I am inclined to think that there are certain difeafes, which are originally engendered, and propagated in certain *' countries, as in their native foil; thefe, by Hippocrates, are *' called difeafes of the country j and fome of them, fprung up in various parts of Europe and Afia, from peculiar defedls in the air, foil, and waters, he has moft accurately defcribed; but, *' the more modern Greeks call them Etidemic difeafes. Thefe, in my opinion, always exifled in their refpeftive native places, as proceeding from the fame natural caufes perpetually exerting *' themfelves. *' It is found that fome of thefe are. contagious, and that the *' contagion is frequently propagated to very remote countries, by means fuitable to the nature of this or that difeafe. For fonje not only communicate the infedion by imniediate con- tadl