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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    And when th' eruption, now mature, is feea To fwell the purpled Ikin with gore obfcene ; 600 When high the heavy-fcented puftules Ihoot, And, breaking, ev'ry joint and limb pollute ; With new-pull'd violets muft then be had Green chamomile, and foft'ning mallows add: Mix thefe with bran, in well-warm'd water place, 605 And llir, and boil the whole, a proper fpace ; Then to the child bring the refrefliing ftore. Foment his limbs, and wafti his body o'er. But As thefe plants are little, if at all, cultivated in Scotland, and that kind called the French lentil feeming to deferve greater at- tention, I (liall give the following direftions with regard to its , culture. It is twice the fize of the common lentil, both in plant and feed. It fliould be fown in. March, after a fingle plowing, in the ground that bore corn the year before. Manure is not abfolutely neceffary, though it will doubtlefs encreafe the crop. Its grafs is faid to ^e very copious; it may be mowed many times in the year, and affords an healthy, as well as agreeable ^louriQiment to horfes, cows, and flieep: the milk of cows fed with it is faid to be very copious and good. Long and numerous pods ripen about the beginning of winter, which afford a new kind of legumen to be eat as common lentils: when frefti, it makes admirable peafe-foup; dry, it is greedily eat by the poul- try. The dried herb is alfo a good refource for cattle in winter. It grows on any kind of ground. Ver. 608. Foment his limis, and ■waJJ} his body o'er.'] How far fomenting the whole body may be neceffary, at any period of the M 3 finall-