An account of some of the most important diseases peculiar to women / by Robert Gooch, M.D.

  • Gooch, Robert, 1784-1830.
Date:
1831
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Credit: An account of some of the most important diseases peculiar to women / by Robert Gooch, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    many cases occur, and so many of them are fatal, that the practitioner of midwifery goes about his tasks with unusual anxiety; and even in a thinly peopled country, where the death of a lying-woman is almost an unheard-of event, fatal cases have occurred in rapid succession, spreading terror among the pregnant women of the neighbourhood. Another remarkable circumstance about this disease is, that, when it is most prevalent, it is most dangerous. Each case is much more dif- ficult of cure than when it occurs seldomer. The practitioner finds that, although the group of symptoms resembles what he was formerly accustomed to, he has now to deal with a dis- ease far more obstinate and successful, and his usual remedies are not so destructive as for- merly; he loses case after case in spite of his best efforts. When it has been thus raging for a considerable time, it at length subsides ; the cases become less frequent and less severe; the practitioner finds his treatment becoming more successful, partly because experience has taught him to detect it earlier and to treat it better, but probably also because the disease has itself become milder. There is still another remarkable circum- stance in the prevalent or epidemic form of this disease. It is not uncommon for the greater B 2