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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    And cluft'rlng grapes, that fwell with ruddy wine. Will cleanfe his throat, and give new ftrength within. Let vinegar its acrid vapour Ihed, 591 To clear the noflrils, and compofe the head; T' affift the lungs, let tragacanth unite Its mucilage, with juice of poppies white : The drowfy lindlus oft relieves his woe, 5915 And makes the heaving bellows foftly blow. Not Ver. 589, 590. Andcluji'i ing grapes^ that/nxjeU with ruddy wine^'X Will cleanfe his throat, and give neiu Jirength luithin. -4 Of all fruits ufed in this diforder, wliich fo particularly de^^ mands their affifiance, pomegranates and red grapes, efpecially the latter, will be found the mpft grateful; they cleanfe the throaf, the bowels, and in a great meafure fupply the want of food, which the patient generally loathes. If thefe cannot be had, ftrawberrics and orange?, though much inferior in virtue, mull be fubflituted in their place. Ver. 595. The drowfy linBus oft relieves his waf,] After the eva- cuations of bleeding, vomiting, purging, and a gentle fweat, if it can be excited without heating the child j opiates ftiould next be adminiftered ; and daily experience fliews their good efFefls ih filling the puftules. But, as Dr. Mead obferVes, they lliould never be given too haftily, nor till after the fever is mode- rated by the above-mentioned evacuations, when the fuppuration of the matter, ftagnating in the puftules, is forwarded by quiet and fleep. And it is at this ftage of the difeafe that St. M^rthe /ecommendeds his lindus, which is rendered more ufeful for M z ppenjng