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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    did not adhere to the pleura. The uterus was quite contracted, and lay concealed within the pelvis: its fubftance was fomewhat thicker than ordinary, but of a firm texture, and perfectly found. CASE IV. This was her fecond lying-in, and fhe was about twenty-eight years of age. She had complained of pains in the abdomen, for fome time before delivery, and told her compa¬ nions afterwards that fhe had got a hurt in her belly, but did not defcribe the manner how, or the particular part where fhe had received the injury. However, fine made no complaints to her phyfician till about the firft or fecond day after delivery, when fhe was feized with a fever, and fevere pain and forenefs all over the hypogaftric region, at¬ tended with a vomiting. The matter thrown up was at firft of a yellow colour, but in the progrefs of the difeafe changed to a green. A diarrhoea came on at the fame time, which continued till death. The bellv was never fwelled, but, in a manner, quite emaciated. The; i