An essay on phlegmatia dolens : including an account of the symptoms, causes and cure of peritonitis puerperalis & conjunctiva, &c &c. / by John Hull.

  • Hull, John, 1761?-1843.
Date:
1800
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Credit: An essay on phlegmatia dolens : including an account of the symptoms, causes and cure of peritonitis puerperalis & conjunctiva, &c &c. / by John Hull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    disease diminished without absolutely going off ; a slow fever afterwards made its appearance, and by enfeebling the patient from day to day, ren- dered her pains so acute, that she could not sup- port herself upon her legs. She was delivered at the term of seven months and a half, after 3 months of sufferings. The child only just lived to be baptized. The complaints continued not- withstanding her delivery : The lochia were in moderate quantity ; but of bad quality. At length this lady fell a sacrifice to these accumu- lated evils, and died about the 9th day after her delivery. There was reason to believe that the change, produced in the milk by some cause or other, was communicated to the other humours, and that the whole mass of blood, becoming con- taminated by this bad leven, occasioned the de- struction of the whole body.” P. 383. CASE VI. “ A lady, when pregnant of her first child, complained at the end of the 4th or 5th month of a rather acute pain in the right hypochondrium, tending towards the kidney. The fever, accom- panying the pain, appeared rather to be the effect of it than the cause. M. de Caumont, her surgeon, after examining her with a good deal of attention, had remarked in the part,