A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women, and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable : together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta in natural births : illustrated with cases / by Charles White, Esq. F. R. S. memb. of the Corp. of Surg. in London; Surg. to the Infirm. and Lunat. Hosp. and V. P. of the Lit. and Phil. Soc. of Manchester: hon. memb. of the Roy. Med. Soc. and of the Phys. Chirurg. Soc. and of the Soc. for the Encouragement of the Study of Nat. Hist. of Edinburgh: and cor. memb. of the Roy. Soc. of Scotland.

  • White, Charles, 1728-1813.
Date:
1785
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Credit: A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women, and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable : together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta in natural births : illustrated with cases / by Charles White, Esq. F. R. S. memb. of the Corp. of Surg. in London; Surg. to the Infirm. and Lunat. Hosp. and V. P. of the Lit. and Phil. Soc. of Manchester: hon. memb. of the Roy. Med. Soc. and of the Phys. Chirurg. Soc. and of the Soc. for the Encouragement of the Study of Nat. Hist. of Edinburgh: and cor. memb. of the Roy. Soc. of Scotland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and its membranes,-fo ftrongly againft the lower inteftines, as to prevent the defcent and exclufion of the excrements., Thefe being retained, the thinner parts are abforbed by the ladteals, which caufe, or at leaft greatly increafe, that obftinate coftivenefs of which moft women com- plain during the whole time of preg- nancy, and which is alfo further in- creafed by a fedentary, inactive life, and improper diet. This excrementitious matter being absorbed into the circula- tion undoubtedly occafions a great in- V/illis's account would not have been liable to any material objection, if he had not excepted the poor in general, for it is now well known that they are very liable to this fever both in the hofpitals, and in their own houfes, efpecially if they are fituated in the middle of large manufacturing towns and cities; but there is this to be faid in favour of the Doftor, that it is above a century fince he wrote this Treatife on the Puerperal fever, at a time when there was no hofpital for lying-in- women in the Britifh dominions, our manufadluries were then in their infancy, and the diet and mode of living amongft the poor people, were totally different from what they aie at this time. B 2 clinatioa