Observations in midwifery, particularly on the different methods of assisting women in tedious and difficult labours. To which are added, observations on the principal disorders incident to women and children / By William Dease.

  • Dease, William, 1752?-1798.
Date:
MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]
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Credit: Observations in midwifery, particularly on the different methods of assisting women in tedious and difficult labours. To which are added, observations on the principal disorders incident to women and children / By William Dease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    L199 NOTE XIV, ‘a “Bo Favit 197 Dy. to. 17745 in Dublis, miliary fevers . were) ,very frequent among lying-in women ;: and before that time, old. practitioners informed me, they feldom met ‘with ‘thems; they appeared.at no certain period Busing the month, but in general an-eruption was: always to be apprehended, if the pulfe was,inot fettled; but continued quick theinext day after delivery, and the difcharges fmall; they began ge- nerally by a rigory.more or lefs feveie, | according to the degree of fever that - followed great anxiety, thirft, heat and heavineds preceded the eruption : the pulle. was remarkably rapid, and _ the patient got no fleep; the duration of thé fever was! uncertain ; fome pa~ tients, continued throwing out. thofe. eruptions ftom time» to times: for fix weeks, ‘which feldom :proved mortal 5 whilft'in’ others the fever ended atch favourably or mortally, in eight, nine, or eleven days. I have known fome | tO.