A system of midwifery : By Edward Rigby ... / With notes and additional illustrations.

  • Rigby, Edward, 1804-1860.
Date:
1841
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Credit: A system of midwifery : By Edward Rigby ... / With notes and additional illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    CHAPTER XIII. PUERPERAL FEVERS. Nature and varieties of puerperal fever.—Vitiation of the blood.—Different species of puerperal fever.—Puerperal peritonitis.—Symptoms.—Appearances after death.—Treatment.—Uterine phlebitis.—Symptoms.—Appearances after death. —Treatment.— Indications. — False peritonitis.— Treatment.— Gastro-bilious puerperal fevers.—Symptoms.—Appearances after death.—Treatment.—Conta- gious or adynamic puerperal fevers.—Symptoms.—Appearances after death.— Treatment, ....... Page 415 CHAPTER XIV. PHLEGMATIA DOLENS. Nature of the disease.—Definition of phlegmatia dolens.—Symptoms.—Duration of I the disease.—Connexion with crural phlebitis.—Causes.—Connexion between the phlegmatia dolens of lying-in women and puerperal fever.—Anatomical charac- ters.—Treatment.—Phlegmatia dolens in the unimpregnated state, - 463 CHAPTER XV. PUERPERAL MANIA. Inflammatory or phrenitic form.—Treatment.—Gastro-enteric form.—Treatment. —Adynamic form.—Causes and symptoms.—Treatment, - - 473