A brief notice of the disease popularly termed puerperal fever / [Samuel Cusack].

  • Cusack, Samuel.
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[1829]
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    A BRIEF NOTICE OP THE DISEASE POPULARLY TERMED PUERPERAL FEVER. By Samuel Cusack, A. B. M. D. Member of the Royal Col¬ lege of Surgeons in Ireland, and Superintending Accoucheur to the Wellesly Dispensary for Lying-in Females, Mercer Street, Dublin. (From the Editiburgh Medical and JournalNo. 98.) 1 HE disease popularly denominated puerperal fever, having of late years received much attention, the following remarks would not most probably have ever been submitted to public notice, had not the author of them sought unsuccessfully among the writings already extant on this subject, for a description and elucidation of certain morbid phenomena, which in the post mortem examination of several late cases of puerperal fever have presented themselves to his observation. Under the impression that it is inexcusable to withhold from public attention any fact which may possibly throw light on the pathology and treatment of a disease generally so fatal in its effects, and so little understood in its nature, he subjoins a few remarks fairly deducible from the morbid phenomena on the nature and treatment of this affection.