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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$To try t'expel the poifon from his limbs. Each noxioiis feed that in the body fwims. For ev'ry Ikill in healing arts {he won 745 From mighty Paeon, Phoebus' favour'd fon, Bleft with fuperidr knowledge by the god; And, of phyficians, firft in rank he ftood. Ver. 746. ' From mig/ity Paon, Phcebus'favour'd fon,'] Paeon was an ancient epithet of the Sun, or Apollo, the father of the heal- ing art. Thus, in the fifth book of the Iliad, when Mars was wounded by Pallas and Diomedes, and obliged to fly from the battle, Jupitec gave him in charge to Paeon, or Apollo : n? (fJaro, >^ TlctUov ky»yi\ Irla-xaQca, T* y et» Xlam'wx- 6 ^viiYilpotliX. QctfiMti» tsclacruv *liici(70tr' a f*fv yap *r» xa7(»9»){los -y Irirvitlo. Thus he, who (hakes Olympus with his nod, Then gave to Paeon's care the bleeding god. With gentle hand the balm he pour'd around. And heal'd th' immortal fiefli, and clos'd the wound. Pope. Hence the name Paon came to fignify any phyfician, who are all celebrated as the fens of Apollo ; in which fenfe the daughter of the Sun feems to be meant in the text ; and might be applied to any young woman who addifted herfelf to the Ihidy of phyfic. In the fame manner Hippocrates, though he was known to be the fon of Heraclides, a philofopher in the ifland of Cos, was commonly called the fon of Efculapius, or the Sun. ^ Firft,$