Facts and observations relative to the fever commonly called puerperal.

  • Armstrong, John, 1784-1829.
Date:
1819
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    discover why some failed and others succeeded, and thus to reconcile those discrepancies of opinion w'hich to some have seemed inexplica- ble. Were it possible, that the leading physi- cians in Europe could at this moment declare bleeding to be prejudicial in the beginning of the puerperal fever, attended with general ex- citement, I would enter my firm protest against the declaration j because whatever respect I might feel for such an united authority, it could not, and should not prevail for an instant against the plain evidence of my senses. But if any one were to affirm that bleeding was inadmis- sible, when the general collapse i9 fully esta- blished in the puerperal fever, then I would cordially join with him in the opinion, nay go even further, and assert the same thing cf the inflammatory form of typhus, and indeed of every other inflammatory disease. In the treatment of the puerperal fever it will sometimes be found a point of great difficulty to determine with precision whether a vein ought to be opened or not when the prac- titioner is consulted rather late than early in the attack; for though it has been tried in the