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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    The child will feel them from his body flow, 625 And fprlnkle, in rough heaps, the bed below. So, when returning winter's blafts invade The trees, and make their vital juices fade; As thefe exhauft, dr}'- leaves beflrew the ground In heaps, and leave the forefl-s bare around. 63Q But laft (nor here your utmoft care difdain) Left, on his face, unfeemly fears remain, With lilies, in fome well-glaz'd veffel, boil The juicy cane, that grows on marfhy foil; Add beans in flow'r; let the flow willow's roots, 635 That, creeping round moift fliores, extend their flioots^, Be careful fought, the turgid urn to fill, And, for the face, their liquor to diftill; For this the foft'ning humours too are good. That hoofs of goats, or fleecy flieep exude. 640 Nor lefs of beautifying pow'r are full The blood of hares, or of the brawny bull: By thefe, if warm from recent flaughter us'd. O'er the rough flcin new graces are difiris'd : Take which you pleafe, nor be with one content, 645 When art, and fkill fo many cures invent. Such Ver, 645. Take -which you pleafe, mr he with one coiifer.t,'] All ^hefe pietliods may be uled^ at Icaft with fafety, not only after