Facts and observations relative to the fever commonly called puerperal / by John Armstrong.

  • Armstrong, John, 1784-1829.
Date:
1814
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Credit: Facts and observations relative to the fever commonly called puerperal / by John Armstrong. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    marked appearance be lost in doubt and hesitation, nb human efforts, generally speaking, can afterwards atone for the error, and, on the contrary, if these gojden moments be seized without delay, and an active treatment steadily pursued, it is my conscien- tious belief that there are few febrile disorders of the more serious kind, which afford the physician a fairer chance for the successful exercise of his functions. Notwithstanding, in this disease it would only be proper that the physician should always give a guarded prognosis, and more especially when it is epidemical, since it has happened in this, as in every other epidemical fever, that cases have proved fatal, in defiance of the most prompt and judicious mea- sures. Dr, Foster has observed that there is often a trea- cherous remission about twenty four hours after the attack, and this, also, is often the case about the end of the third day; whenever, indeed, any re- mission of pain takes place, the professional attend- ant must neither be betrayed into a sanguine decla-