Volume 1

Essay on the puerperal fever / by Thomas Denman.

  • Thomas Denman
Date:
1773
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Credit: Essay on the puerperal fever / by Thomas Denman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The progrefs of the difeafe is fometimes extremely rapid. Inftances have occured, where women have died even within twenty four hours of the firft attack; and I have feen a few who never grew warm after the rigor. In fome, death has followed quite unexpected¬ ly, from the imperceptible but infidious pro¬ grefs of the difeafe. In other cafes the fhiver- ing fit is fucceeded with lefs violent fymptoms, but the tendernefs and fwelling of the abdo¬ men, joined with a fever, are to be efteem- ed the pathognomonic figns of this difeafe. It is neceflary to enumerate all the fymptoms which have been commonly obferved, though not in any individual patient, yet cafes will occur in practice in which there will be great variation, depending upon the degree of the difeafe, the conftitution of the patient and the period after delivery when this fever makes its appearance. The pulfe has almoft invariably an unufual quicknefs from the beginning. It has often that ftrength and vibration obferved in difor- ders of the moft inflammatory kind, and yet fometimes is exceedingly feeble. The latter is • to
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