Pathological researches on inflammation of the veins of the uterus : with additional observations on phlegmasia dolens / by Robert Lee.

Date:
1829
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    INFLAMMATION OF THE VEINS OF THE UTERUS, WITH ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON PHLEGMASIA DOLENS; BY ROBERT LEE, M.D. PH YSICIAN-ACCOU CHE UR TO THE BRITISH LYING-IN HOSPITAL. Read 13th and 21tli October, 1829. In a former communication, which I had the honour of presenting to this Society, on the patho- logy of Phlegmasia Dolens *, I was led, from a se- ries of facts, to infer, that inflammation of the iliac and femoral veins gives rise to all the phenomena of that disease in puerperal women. Subsequent dissections have enabled me, not only to confirm the accuracy of my former observations, but have led me to discover the important pathological fact, that in Phlegmasia Dolens, the inflammation com- mences in the uterine branches of the hypogastric veins, and subsequently extends from them into the iliac and femoral trunks of the affected side. * Med.-Chir. Trans. Vol. XV. p. 132. B