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:
1782
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    of fluids in thefe parts during the laft weeks of pregnancy, by which there is more lymph, and perhaps of greater vifci- dity, fecreted, while abforption is diminifh- ed. The coagulable particles found in it fhow its origin, and that it neither arifes from fuppuration, nor corruption of the vifcera. It is from this lymph that the preternatural coats of the uterus and liver are produced 5 and from this pus will be formed, and afterwards, during the fever, putrid matter. From thefe reafons, a (lighter caufe in the air, or lefs contagion, muft more powerfully affect women at this, than at any other time. In the cure of this difeafe, authors, who have treated of it, are divided in their opi- nions. 1. As to bleeding, they differ widely; and each draws arguments for his practice from his own theory. Thofe who affirm that an inflammation of the uterus and in- teftines is the caufe of the difeafe, as Dr. HulmeandDr. Leake, advife this evacua- tion, as rendering the circulation through the veffels eafier, diminifhing the fecretion of hile, obviating the plethoric habit of body