A treatise on the puerperal fever: wherein the nature and cause of that disease, so fatal to lying-in women, are represented in a new point of view illustrated by dissections. And a rational method of cure proposed, confirmed by experience / By Nathaniel Hulme.

  • Hulme, Nathaniel, 1732-1807.
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M DCC LXXII
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Credit: A treatise on the puerperal fever: wherein the nature and cause of that disease, so fatal to lying-in women, are represented in a new point of view illustrated by dissections. And a rational method of cure proposed, confirmed by experience / By Nathaniel Hulme. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    much that it is a matter of no fmall furprize, that phyficians in general fhould have either overlooked it, or have been fo irregular and confufed in its defcnption. This fever, as to the time of its duration, will vary, according to the violence of the difeafe, the manner of treatment, and the time of the patient making her complaints known. In general, if it ends favourably, it may terminate in three, four, or five days from the time of complaining. The wife of Lawson had her fever terminated even in twenty-four hours, by purging her with the Jal catharticus amarus, notwithftanding the pains of the abdomen were very fevere, and the pulfe at one hundred and thirty-fix. What is here to be underftood by the word terminate, is no more than that the pains ceafe, the fever abates, and the patient is out of danger. I do not mean that the fick per- fon is able, in that time, to get up and walk about, as if nothing had happened. Un¬ doubtedly fhe muft require fome time after¬ wards, to recover her ftrength ; and even the weaknefs, from the preceding labour would demand