The Dublin practice of midwifery / By Henry Maunsell.

  • Maunsell, Henry, 1806-1879.
Date:
1834
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Credit: The Dublin practice of midwifery / By Henry Maunsell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. XXII. PHLEGMASIA DOLENS. This painful affection generally attacks women between the tenth and sixteenth days after delivery, seldom earlier, but sometimes at a much later period. Its subjects are generally persons of broken-down constitutions, and it frequently at- tacks those who have suffered from hemorrhage or manual interference with the interior of the uterus, and, in whom, before its invasion, there are manifest signs of irritation of that organ. The disease is usually ushered in by distinct febrile symptoms; there is a rigor, followed by heat, thirst, loaded tongue, full pulse, and head- ach. The cause of these symptoms is soon re- vealed, by the occurrence of pain and stiffiiess in one of the groins, upper part of the thigh, or labium, or the pain may first be felt in the knee or calf of the leg. This is rapidly succeeded by tumefaction, which spreads from the point first attacked, and, within twenty-four or forty-eight hours, the limb is sometimes increased to nearly twice its original size. There is then exquisite pain, aggravated by the slightest attempt at mo- tion. The limb is tense, white, and shining, is