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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    come more troublesome, and was accompanied with a darting pain in the abdomen, the swell- ing and hardness of which had increased. The vomiting had also returned. An~ opening draught had procured two natural loose stools, and the vomiting was relieved, but the pain continued the same. The erysepelas had become more extensive, and the patient was hot and were ordered to be given with an interval of *four hours, and the draughts to be continued, juice. ‘¢+10. A considerable remission of the symptoms had again taken place in the night. The skin had become cool, and the tongue cleaner: The pulse was soft, and beat no more than an 100 strokes in a minute. This truce, however, was increased, and before night the pulse got up to 120. | Bite ~*