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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    On tender infants, with unwearied ftrife, Ev'n from the threfliold of beginning life. 660 Thy dreadful pow'r, with fudden ruin, bends The failing limbs, the tighten d nerves diftends, Diftorts the joints, contradts the body whole. And intercepts each funftlon of the fouL Long in the fit he lies, and buried deep 665 Beneath thy influence, as in heavy fleep; Nor would his life be known, or inward woes. Except from foetid foam the ftomach throws ; From forth his mouth it runs, with frequent moans; His hollow fides re-echo to his groans; 670 His faculties are gone, his fenfes loft. And with new tremblings his young arms are toft. Yet this fad violence fubfifts not long. But goes, and com^s, ^n(i he fometimes is ftrong; Ver. 660. Evnfrom the threjhold of beginning life.'] Tliofe ftib- jeft to an hereditary epilepfy, faid to be incurable, are attacked by it almpft from the womb; but, if they furvive the firft or fecond paroxyfm, however terrible to themfelves or their friends, it is frequently not dangerous. And Van Swieten mentions an inftance of one who had been afflifted with it from his infancy, ^nd yet lived to be eighty years of age. And,