Facts and observations relative to the fever commonly called puerperal.

  • Armstrong, John, 1784-1829.
Date:
1819
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    by practitioners of the first authority. This was so much the ease in the epidemic, which has been made the chief subject of these pages, that hardly any patients escaped who were not early bled, except those which Mr. Wolfe at- tended, and a few others which had a subdued character. It is worthy, too, of particular notice, that the disease fell under the observation of some who had received an early and a strong prejudice against venesection; but they finally abandoned this prejudice from its being fatal to their patients, and became the decided advo- cates for the use of the lancet from direct proofs of its efficacy. Some differences, indeed, exist on minor points, among those gentlemen who honoured me with their correspondence, but they all agree in the principle of early and powerful depletion. This remarkable agree- ment appeal’s to lay the foundation for a fair inference in favour of the inflammatory cha- racter of the puerperal fever; since those who have treated it successfully, in whatever else they may differ, accord in this, that it can only be overcome by such means as are con- stantly had recourse to for the removal of in- flammation. In many of the cases which oc- H