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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    Refifts the coining blow with all her force, And makes the humour downward bend its courfe ? Hence tliey whofe brain is fineft form'd, and thin, 691 Are moft infefted by this gale within, Whofe penetrating pow'r has oft been found To vex thofe heroes, chief in fame renown'd. Why Ver. 689. Reji/is the co7ning blo--w lu'ith all her force,'] The epi- Icpfy is thought to be occafioned by various external caufes irri- tating the nerves of thofe whom nature has difpofed to be affli6t- ed with it. Of which Van Swieten gives a good inftance of a girl, ten years of age, who was rendered epileptic feveral years, by ano- ther tickling the foles of her feet, while they were at play. And of one that-lhe got a fmall hard fubftance fixed in the fame part. The Ikin healed over it, and the felt no nneafinefs in the place, but was feized with fevere, and frequent epileptic paroxyfms. It was at length difcovered, and extrafted; and Ihe recovered inftantly. He liltewife mentions, as in the text, that fome fee], as it were, a cold blafl: afcend from the finger or toe, or from fome other part of the body, which as foon as it arrives at the heart, they inftantly fall. In Boerhaav. Aphor. 1073. f Ver. 694. Thofe heroes chief in fame reno-'wii'd.'] Boerhaave, enu- merating the caufes of this difeafe, mentions an acute, and penetrating genius as one. Of which his Commentator gives . inftances in Julius Ceefar, Petrarch, Fabius Columna, and the learned natural!ft Francis Redi, who died of it at the age of feyenty. And he obferves, tjiat fuch as enjoy remarkably acute parts