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

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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$His foul, that In the llcies commenc'd a god; That, on his fhouldefs, bore th' enormous load 710 Of funs and ftars, the great Alcides nam'd. Who conquer'd favage beaftsj and men reclaim'd. When Victor from his Cleonsean toils, Cloth'd in the vanquifli'd lion's fhaggy fpoils, Jle wander'd thro' the fhades of Nemea's wood, 715 That near the fam'd Phliuntian city flood ; Or took the well-known way to Corinth leads. Where the ftrait ifthmus joins its double heads, • Ver. 711. the great Alcides nam'd,'] Ariftotle, itl his problems, Se6^. 30, queft, i, tell us, that Hercules was fub- jedl to the epilepfy. Hence it was nam'd the Herculean difeafe. But Galen, in the (ixth Book of his Commentary on the Fpide- mics of Hippocrates, thinks, that it rathej- received this name from the grearnefs of the diforder, and its attacking with more fudden and violent paroxyfms than any other. If the actions of Hercules can be divefted of fable, and applied to one difeafe, this difeafe muft have been occaficjned by his perpetual labours, and no doubt heightened by the anger of Juno r that is, being expofed to all weathers, and frequently obliged, to fleep in the open air. Ver. 716. 7bat near the fam'd Phl'iurUian cityJlood{] A caflle and town of Sicyonia, about fou/ miles from Corinth, near which Hercules killed the famous Nemean lion, the Ikin of which he wore as a garment in all his exploits afterwards. 3 . By$