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.

    17/44 page 13
    The loofenefs, in fome cafes, takes place im¬ mediately upon the acceffion, in others, three or four days after, and in fome, not till the laft ftage of the difeafe ; but it feldom fails to • V ’ ' attend, nor can it ever be removed without the greateft danger, as well as difficulty, be¬ fore the difeafe is terminated. The ftools of¬ ten come away involuntarily, being always preceded by an increafe of pain, and the eva¬ cuation conftantly gives a momentary relief. They are very fetid, of a green or dark brown color and working like yeaft, and it is re¬ markable, that after the long continuance of the loofenefs, when the patient has taken little nouriffiment, large and hard lumps of excre¬ ment will be fometimes difcharged, which one might fufpeft to have been lying in the bowels a long time before delivery. There is a peculiarity in this fever, which I believe has never yet been obferved. It is an eryfypelatofe appearance, of a dulky red color, /■ ? on the knuckles, wrifts, elbows, knees or an¬ cles, about the fize of a fhilling, and fometimes larger. This is always a mortal fign, and on the infpedtion of thofe who have died, with this
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