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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    That chiefly tends th'offending. caufe, to dry, And make the humours from the body fly. Wherefore avoid with care whatever food Abounds with moifl:ure, or may chill the blood; 815 But villt net too oft th' inflaming bowl; The draught repeated but unma'ns the fovil. Look Ver. 817. Tfje draught repeated but unmans ih'e/cml']' This ob? feryation is ahnoJl as old as me ufe of wine itlelf. Homer puts in the mouth of Hedtor, io the fixth Iliad, Far hence be Bacchu?' gifts, the Chief rejoin'd ; Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind, Unnerves the limbs, and dulls the noble mind. To which I Iliall add the remark of the Tranflator, that Samfon, ' the ftrongeft man on record, was a water-drinker; and the following obfervation of Hippocrates, which deferv.es to be moft particularly attended to in this country, where coughs, con- fumptions, and inflammatory diforders ofthebreaft, are fo fi-'e- quent: Inflammationem in pulmone fieri miaxim^ a viaolentia, et pifcium capitorum, et anguillarum ingliivie ; hi nan.que pinguedinem humanae nature inimiciffima'm habent. ' De in- tern. Atledt. cap. 7.—That an inflammation of the lungs happens