A report ... of a memoir, containing a new, easy, and successful method of treating the child-bed or puerperal fever, made use of by the late M. Doulcet ... Read at a meeting of the Royal Medical Society ... the 6th of Septenber [sic] 1782. Translated from the French. To which are added notes ... / by John Whitehead.

  • Société Royale de Médicine.
Date:
1783
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Credit: A report ... of a memoir, containing a new, easy, and successful method of treating the child-bed or puerperal fever, made use of by the late M. Doulcet ... Read at a meeting of the Royal Medical Society ... the 6th of Septenber [sic] 1782. Translated from the French. To which are added notes ... / by John Whitehead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not enter into a detail of any one method. None is general, and the choice can only be determined by the circumftances of the difeafe. We fhall obferve, however, that the phyficians who have feen the difeafe in its putrid character, are thofe who have approached the neared to the method of cure of M. Doulcet. We find emetics and trid Puerperal Fever. In the former, a prudent ufe of the lancet will doubtlefs be of ufe; whilfl in the latter, it will generally be attended with the moll fatal confe- quences. The latter likewife, is that which molt fre- quently occurs; and it is but juftice to acknowledge, that Dr. Denman was the firlt who pointed out a more fuccfcfsful method of cure than any which had been in ufe before his time. There is indeed but little difference between his method of cure and that recommended in this Report of M. Doulcet’s Memoir, except that he made ufe of Tartar Emetic in the commencement of the difeafe inftead of Ipecacuanha, which he gave in the laft ftage of it, combined with Confeftio Damocratis, when the ftools continued too frequent. He did not, however, perceive the importance of the moment of attack, which accident feems to have difcovered.—The ingenious Mr. White of Manchelter has, perhaps, made the greateff improvements in the methodus medendi of this Fever, of any writer fince the publication of Dr. Denman’s Effay in 1768. I purgatives
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