Practical essays on the management of pregnancy and labour; and on the inflammatory and febrile diseases of lying-in women / By John Clarke.

  • Clarke, John, 1761-1815.
Date:
1793
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Credit: Practical essays on the management of pregnancy and labour; and on the inflammatory and febrile diseases of lying-in women / By John Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As new cafes arofe, and when more time had given greater opportunity for the exer- cife of reflexion and judgment, the more I thought, the more I was fatisfied that a fuf- ficient difcrimination had not been made of the febrile difeafes of lying-in women. That I might not add to the obfcurky a 1- readv too great, and iocreafe doubts and dif- ficulti&s already too numerous, I determined to defcribe things as I found them, and thought it my duty to publifli the refult of the experience which I had acquired, for the advantage of thofe, whofe opportunities of making extenfive obfervations might, from accidental circumftances, be more contrafled than mine. That epidemic gradually difappeared to¬ wards the clofe of the year following that in which it began, fo that I have only hidden- tally been called to a very few cafes, attended with fimilar fymptoms, in the laft four years, either in public or private practice ; and as far as I have been able to procure any informa¬ tion upon the fubje<ft, I have reafon to believe that in that time there has been but a fmali mortality among puerperal patients. Yet ftill as from the laft yearly bills it appears, that of 4 all