Cases of puerperal convulsions, with remarks / [John Charles Weaver Lever].

  • Lever, John C. W., 1811-1858.
Date:
[1843]
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Credit: Cases of puerperal convulsions, with remarks / [John Charles Weaver Lever]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PUERPERAL CONVULSIONS, WITH REMARKS. BY JOHN C. W. LEVER, M.D. The following Fourteen Cases of Puerperal Convulsions, out of Seven thousand four hundred and four women attended by the Pupils attached to the Lying-in-Charity of Guy’s Hospital, have occurred between the years 1834 and 1843. The symptoms which marked their course, and the principles which guided their treatment, present no new or extraordinary feature ; but the coincidence of an albuminous condition of the urine, in nine out of ten cases in which that secretion was examined, is a fact which, so far as my investigations and inquiries have extended, has not been previously remarked. Case 1. Fifth Confinement—Anaemic Convulsion from Loss of Blood— Mother recovered—Child horn alive. Eliza H-, aged 36, in labour with her fifth child. When seven months pregnant she had a discharge of blood; and about a week, previous to her labour, whilst rising from her chair, about half-a-pint again passed from her, unattended by pain or effort: this discharge continued, in greater or less quantities, up to the time of her labour. She was much depressed in spirits, and complained of feeling weak : her pulse was feeble, 80. She had been living in a state of most abject penury for two or three months, subsisting for days on a single meal of bread and tea. Her face and body were covered with cachectic sores. Mr. Tweedie, who was called to Mr. Champion’s assistance, made an examination. The os uteri scarcely admitted the point of his finger, and the disturbance brought back a return of the bleeding. She was ordered, Ol. Ricini ^vi. Tinct. Opii. 5fs* s, s. Infus. Rosse C. c. Acid. Sulph. dilut. pro potione. A little sago, flavoured with wine. On the 28th, and morning of the 29th, she was better : the discharge was not so great, but of a more offensive character. At 10 p.m. b