Volume 2

Medical instructions towards the prevention and cure of chronic diseases peculiar to women : in which, their nature is fully explained, and their treatment, clearly laid down ... : to which are added, prescriptions, or efficacious forms of medicine, in English, adapted to each disease / by John Leake.

Date:
1781
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Credit: Medical instructions towards the prevention and cure of chronic diseases peculiar to women : in which, their nature is fully explained, and their treatment, clearly laid down ... : to which are added, prescriptions, or efficacious forms of medicine, in English, adapted to each disease / by John Leake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    tried various medicines and methods for their relief, our beft endeavors to that end often proved ineffe(![lual. It grieved me to find that fo many women died of this deftru(5tive Fever, hut fince there was reafon to believe it was at firft imper-ip fed:ly underftood, I ftill had hopes that by time and obfervation, it might admit of more certainty in the cure, and become lefs for^ midable. I therefore, made it a rule to com-* mit to paper the feveral fymptoms and cir* cumftances in the order they occurred, and likewife the daily and hourly changes which happened at different periods of the difeafe} as far as opportunity w^ould allow me, either from my own attendance on the fick, or inr formation of the Matron and Nurfes in my abfence. I noted down their degree of vio-^ lence and time of duration, as exadlly as pof- lible, and alfo, whether the patient became better or worfe, in confequence of fuch par- ticular fymptoms as appeared from time to Thefe,