An inaugural dissertation on the puerperal fever : submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College, in the state of New-York ; William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. president : for the degree of Doctor of Physic ; on the fifth day of May, 1795 / by Timothy Fletcher Wetmore, of New-York.

  • Wetmore, Timothy Fletcher, 1764-1799.
Date:
1795
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the puerperal fever : submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College, in the state of New-York ; William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. president : for the degree of Doctor of Physic ; on the fifth day of May, 1795 / by Timothy Fletcher Wetmore, of New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. A S this fever has been obferved in all ages, and has been conjidered to be and actually is one of the moji dangerous difeafes incident to the fair fex; and, as many authors of eminence and great natural genius and erudition have bejlowed much time in inveftigat- ing it, with a view of determining the real caufc, and rendering the method of cure more certain; and as its nature has remained to the prefent time a fubjetl of much difpute and uncertainty; for neither Leake, Denman, Manning, Hulme, White, Kirkland, Butter, Young, Johnfton, and other learned men before alluded to, have agreed on, nor fully determined the nature, caufe and method of cure in this fatal difeafe:—// cannot, therefore, be expefled that Ifhould advance any thing new or definitive on the fubjetl, (this being only a collegiate exercife) although I am induced to take a view of the fame, as it is a difeafe that often perplexes Phyjicians, and defervedly demands their greatejl attention. For this purpofe If jail endeavour t<? colkoi and bring forward the mofl received opinions, B with