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.
Date:
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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    By carefully attending to the pulfe and re- Ipiration, much may be learnt refpedling the fate of the patient labouring under this dil- eafe. If the pulfe be very quick, and the re- fpiration frequent and fmall, it portends great danger. If, on the contrary, the pulfe become flower, the breathing more free and full, it is a certain flgn of a change for the better. The degrees of thefe are to afcertaia the degree of danger, or fafety, of the pa¬ tient. A quick pulfe, fmgly confidered, is, at all times, a dangerous lymptom ; and the more fo, if very weak and fmall. The con¬ trary indicates lafety. If the pulfe does but once begin to become daily flower and flower, as from one hundred and twenty-eight to one hundred and twelve, then to one hundred, or the like, it is to be efteemed as one of the befl: figns. But if it continue at the fame number, or rather quicken, it always threat¬ ens danger ; or if it be found changeable, being one day quicker and another day flower, it is ever to be fufpected. Nay, fo infallible is the beat of the pulfe, with refpedt to num¬ ber, that though all the other iymptoms thou Id abate, and the difeafe feem to be gone off.