Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / by Francis Home, M.D. one of His Majesty's physicians, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and professor of materia medica in the University of Edinburgh.

  • Home, Francis, 1719-1813.
Date:
1783
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    fatal to them, met with little attention till of late, when the morbid body has been much infpedted. Though nearly uniform in its fymptoms and appearances on direc- tion ; yet, perhaps, no diieafe is at prefent lefs underflood. In the clinical ward we can feldom have fuch patients. But, in fpring 1774, while the lying-in-ward was purifying, two patients were fent to us. As fuch cafes are not very common, and as five died in the lying-in-ward, we fhall give a particular account of thofe two cafes. Jean Reid and Margaret Myrtle were affedted fo much alike, that we fhall treat of them together. But as the former had the fymptoms mofl diflinbt, we fhall chiefly defcribe it, and mark what difference there was in the latter. March 4, 1774. Reid, 23, delivered of her third child, was taken ill on the 2d day after delivery. February 21'. Myrtle, 21, delivered of her firfl child, after a te- dious labour of four days, attended with much flooding, was feized on the 12th day. Authors have remarked, that this difeafe comes on from the 2d to the 12th, which our cafes fhew; and that the looner it ap- E 4 pears,