A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying in women : and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable ; together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta in natural births ; illustrated with cases / by Charles White, Esq. F.R.S. man midwife to the lying in hospital, in Manchester, in England, &c. &c.

  • White, Charles, 1728-1813.
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying in women : and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable ; together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta in natural births ; illustrated with cases / by Charles White, Esq. F.R.S. man midwife to the lying in hospital, in Manchester, in England, &c. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are crowded, not only in one houfe, but in one ward, where the difeafe is conveyed from one to another by the putrid miafmata lodging in the curtains, bed clothes, and furniture, and by the neceffary houfes, which are either contiguous to, or fo near the hofpital as to occafion a moll dif- agreeable fmell, and muft of courfe convey that in- fection which cannot be more effectually com- municated, than by the excrements. This defcription may perhaps feem overcharged for a picture of that improved practice which is in- troduced by modern profeflbrs of the art; but up- on a clofe examination, I believe it will appear that many of the moll important errors do in reality prevail, and this I impute in great meafure to the large fhare which nurfes have in directing the man- agement of lying in women, to whofe interference practitioners 1,'eftomac, les inteftins & la matricebien examinees, paroiffoient avoir etc enflammcs, Sc il eft forti, fuivant le rapport de ces deux Medecins, des gru-. meaux de fang a 1'ouverture des caneaux de la matrice. Dans pleufieuis de ces femrmes, les ovaires paroiffoient avoir ete en fup- puration. Hift, de 1'Acad. Royale des Sciences l'an 1746, 4to. p. 160. ** I am well informed that this fever and obftruftion occur more frequent- ly in the lying in hofpitals, than in private practice. What can this arife from but from the different ftates of air ? This in my opinion is the caufe; for though very gveat care is taken in thofe hofpitals, yet as tfce apartments and furniture will imbibe fomc of the morbid effluvia, arifing from the pa« ticnts, the air muft always be more or lefs tainted. Johnfon'i Midwifery p. •£!« B4