An essay on the diagnosis between erysipelas, phlegmon, and erythema : with an appendix, touching the probable nature of puerperal fever / by George Hume Weatherhead.

  • Weatherhead, G. Hume (George Hume), 1790?-1853.
Date:
1819
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Credit: An essay on the diagnosis between erysipelas, phlegmon, and erythema : with an appendix, touching the probable nature of puerperal fever / by George Hume Weatherhead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE Baglivi justly observes, Medicina non inge- nii humani partus est, sed temporis filia. We shall be proud if, in the execution of the follow- ing little Essay, the motto can be substantiated in our own instance. Great descrepency of opinion exists respect- ing the nature and cause of Erysipelas, and our steps towards a knowledge of this disease have been vacillating and unequal. Galen, in many parts of his works, repeatedly describes erysi- pelas in pretty accurate terms. Hoffman's de- scriptions are tolerably correct, and Callisen and Cullen had an excellent idea of erysipelas phlegmonodes; but amongst the writers of the present day we find nothing but a confused and deteriorated notion of its true nature and diagnosis. Yet the young reader must not imagine that any of the authors quoted in this Essay have B