An account of puerperal fevers, as they appear in Derbyshire, and some of the counties adjacent / [William Butter].

  • Butter, William, 1726-1805.
Date:
1775
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of puerperal fevers, as they appear in Derbyshire, and some of the counties adjacent / [William Butter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V When a pain continues fixt, and violent in the belly, although the means already recommended have been ufed> a blifter ap¬ plied to the part will have the deiired effedt. Venefe&ion is never to be ufed in this fever, except it be complicated with in¬ flammatory fymptoms : and there is a good rule, in fuch cafes, for that evacua¬ tion. If the pain be inconfiderable but during the exacerbations, you fhould draw a little blood when it is at the worft. Three ounces will give inftant relief: and you may repeat the operation, in the fame manner, every exacerbation till the pain is gone ; which will be, after two or three bleedings at the moft, By this method you will remove the inflammation, and fave the ftrength which is to carry the patient through the fever. It mufl: how¬ ever be remembered, that the inflamed part is to be fomented two or three times a day ; and poultices of bread and milk with oil are to be applied during the inter¬ vals. I have feen feme inftances of this kind where the breafts were the parts inflamed. But, when the pain and other fym¬ ptoms of inflammation are conftant and violent.