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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![The grateful god, ftill mindful of his cure. And thofe fad woes the human race endure, Infus'd her virtues in the blooming flow'r, And gave her thus the faliitary pow'r Still to remove the caufe of this difeafe, To. conquer the returning fits with eafe ; And fuch its ftrength to anfwer this great end, That thofe, who from their necks its roots depend. Are (wonderful to tell!) no more diftrefs'd With the dire woe, that had their fouls opprefs'd. 893 Apollo's will confirm'd what then was done ; He made its pow'r to future ages known; And long experience, and obferving thought Convince, that ftill the miracle is wrought. Nor the return of learning and improvements in natural h.ftory prevailed over ancient, fuperftitions, and medicinal plants we« valued, not according to their appearances, but from the qua. lities which experience flicvved them to polfefs. Ver.1899. Convince, ihat Jill the miracle is ivrought.-] It has beea remarked by Cicero, and after him by Mr. Addifon, that the^e is no propofition fo abfurd, but that it has been'advanced by feme writer of credit. Of this obfervation the lines lU the text are a proof; and, in this inftance, the fuperftition of the poet fcems to have got the better of his reafou. For it cannot be con^ geivea](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21958890_0387.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
