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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    Or, if his ftrength forbid, the Nurfe ITiould take The potion for the lickly infant's fake. But fhould the Fever, which you thus engage, Refilllefs burn with unextinguifh'd rage ; Should all your efforts fail to eafe his pains, 525 To kill the poifon warring in his veins. You muft fubmit, for wife phyficians fend. Nor on each idle redpe depend. That trav'lling quacks advife, or women give ; For, tho' they chief the mother's mind deceive, 530 The common error oft infers us all. And here the learn'd themfelves are apt to fall, By heat attempting, and by ill-tim'd care. To force the poifon to the ambient air. In this difeafe the greateft hazards lie 535- In that fad treatment, which too many try, When they, by violence, bring from withm A load of puftules on th' inflaming fkin, Ver. 5 38. A load of puftules on th' inflaming Jkln,-] The pernicious method of treating this difeafe by heating medicines being no«r „niverfally and juftly exploded, I Aiall only remark, that after the cool regimen had been fo early introduced as the time of St. Marthe, it feems extremely furprizing that it fliould have been laid afide, and the former mode of treatment revived towards the end of the laft century, with fo/much miftaken zeal, that all the art of a Sydenham could fcarcely put a Hop to it. That,