A report, made by order of government, 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, held at the Louvre, the 6th of September, 1782 / translated from the French ; to which are added notes, containing a view of the nature and causes of this alarming and fatal disease, by John Whitehead.

  • Société royale de médecine (France)
Date:
1783
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Credit: A report, made by order of government, 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, held at the Louvre, the 6th of September, 1782 / translated from the French ; to which are added notes, containing a view of the nature and causes of this alarming and fatal disease, by John Whitehead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I of White, Hill me, and Leake; andlafllyin the learned dihertaiions publifhed at Edin- burgh by Johnftone and Slaughter. To what thefe authors have faid we fhall join fome obfervations which have been com- municated to us, and which, in 1777, were entered in the regiflers of the Prima M^n/is “ of the faculty of medicine of Paris by M. Sigault, who had obferved and treated this difeafe at the fame time that ” On the fir/l of every month, twelve do61ors, mem- bers of the college, or faculty of Paris, are called toge-i ther, to give an account of the reigning difeafes of the preceding month, and to communicate fuch obfervatiorts as they may deem worthy of notice. This meeting is called Prima Maijis, as being held the firll day of every month. In the time of any epidemic difeafe which is alarming to the public, or which has any thing pecu- liar in its charafter, thefe obfervations are fometimes publilhed. It is to be lamented that the college of London, and indeed all the Licentiates at large, do not form a fimilar cllablifhment for the fame purppfes. It would be a lin- gular advantage to the younger part of the faculty, and is in fome meafure necelTary in a metropolis like this, where fo many perfons are allowed to praftife who have never had any medical Academical education, nor taken a degree in medicine. D 2 M. Sober