Volume 1

An essay on the diagnosis between erysipelas, phlegmon, and erythema : with an appendix, touching the probable nature of puerperal fever / George Hume Weatherhead.

  • Weatherhead, G. Hume (George Hume), 1790?-1853.
Date:
[1819]
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Credit: An essay on the diagnosis between erysipelas, phlegmon, and erythema : with an appendix, touching the probable nature of puerperal fever / George Hume Weatherhead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ordered the application of fomentations to the - abdomen. ‘© The lochia, which continued till now, were suppressed, the urine was scanty, high coloured, and passed with pain; I therefore ordered an infusion of lintseed for drink, and nitre with ’ crystals of tartar, to be given in pretty large doses. | je ‘¢ On the third day there was a remission, and on the fifth a complete termination of the fever. - y with an erysipelas of one of the arms.” Mr. Hey, of Leeds, in an admirable Essay on this disease, mentions, that during the existence of the puerperal fever that devastated’that town _ from 1811 to 1812; “no disease was so preva- lent as to deserve the name of an epidemic, ex- - cept erysipelatous inflammations, which pre- vailed the whole period of the puerperal fever, and in many cases were of a malignant kind ;