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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    Wherefore anoint the fwelling orbs with dew, That bleeding rofes open to the view, ^ 580 Or with pure fragrance of the riiilky fprings, That, from thenurfe's breaft, foft prefTure brings 4 And tinge his face, and ev'ry tumid eye, With warming Saffron of Corycian dye. Nor, to preferve the fight, is lefs of ufe 585 The ripe pomegranate's more deUcious juice. Which, alfo faves his mouth from feft'ring heat. If the lick child the foft'ning pulp can eat; Ver. 580. That Heeding rofes open to the view,'] Every thing fra- grant and cooling is good in the fmall-pox ; wherefore the room fliould be fcented with rofes, and fweet-fmelling herbs; and when the face fwelis much (which is commonly a good fymptom), and the eye-hds difcharge matter, an embrocation of warmrofe- water, or the niirfe's milk, will frequently give relief, when a great load of puftules requires it. Saffron is now thought too heating for this difeafe ; when there are putrid fymptoms, an infufion of it may perhaps be ufed as an embrocation. But the Peruvian bark now juftly takes place of all other medicines for this purpofe. The Englifli laffron is preferred to that brought from abroad for all medicinal ufes. The kind ufed by the aa- tients, and recommended in the text, grew in Covycium, a coun- try of Phocis, in Greece. It is celebrated by Lucan, and other ancient poets; and, on account of its medical virtues, was con- fecrated to Apollo, as the reader will find in the fecond hymn, of Callimachus.