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.

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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    ( ao6 ) couraging letters, from the generous nobleman, to whom the foregoing work is infcrlbed; I began the eleventh of June, 1794, a tranflation of the Funics of CaiusSiLius Italicus, into Englifh rhyme; and completed the whole feventeen books, the twenty-fourth of June, 1796; which, fince that time, have been perufed with approbation by my worthy friends, the Earl of BucHAN, above mentioned, Sir David Carnegie, and Sir Walter. Farciuhar, baronets: and alfo by a gentleman, eminent for his learning and knowledge of antiquities, namely the celebrated General Melville, who has, in a particular manner, ftudied the hiftory of the fecond Punic war, and who himfelf examined the courfe of Hannibal over the Alps. But the expence of publication being fo great and the encourage- ment BOW given by bookfellers to fuch claflical under- takings being fo fmal], or rather nothing3 my prefent intention 18 to publifli, in a fliort time, propofals for a lubfcription to this tranflation, with copious notes, illuflrating both the hiflory and the beauties of an admirable ancient poem; which, has been only once tranflated into Englifli, and that in language fcarcely intelligible. Of