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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    off, yet if the pulfations do not decreafe ill proportion, a relapfe, or fome other diforder, is to be feared. A diarrhoea coming oil at the beginning* if followed by a flower pulfe, prognofticates fafety. But if, after evacuations by ftool, whether procured by nature or art, the pulfe fhould not become flower, it is to be reckon¬ ed as one of the mod dangerous fymptoms. A perfon feized with this fever having had a coftive body, during pregnancy, is threatened with more danger than if the belly had been regular. If the difeafe be negledted in the begin¬ ning, it is frequently mortal; but if affiftance be called in due time, it often eafily yields to medicine. When figns of the malady come on imme¬ diately from the time of delivery, it is com¬ monly produdtive of evil. If violent pains fhoot acrofs the epigaftric region, through the ribs to the back, with a difficulty in breathing, and a quick pulfe, the