Essay on the puerperal fever / by Thomas Denman.

  • Thomas Denman
Date:
1773
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    exiftence to the milk, or to a fuppreftion of the lochia, while others have defcribed it as the miliary fever. Some again have termed it an inflammation of the Uterus, while others have confidently afferted, that it was wholly confined to the bowels, and that the Uterus was not concerned. With fuch different ideas of the caufes and feat of the difeafe, we may con- clude that the treatment muft have been va- rious, and often hurtful. Undoubtedly there is great difficulty in forming a juft opinion of a very complicated difeafe, but in proportion to the difficulty our diftindtions fhould be ac- curate, that we may be enabled to do good, or at leaft may avoid doing mifchief. There are fome caufes which predifpofe to this difeafe, and there are many which acci- dentally give rife to it. Independently of the changes occafioned in the conftitution by par- ticular modes of living, women, with a view to parturition, will not bear a comparifon with other creatures. The erect pofition of the body, the different conftrudtion of the Uterus and Placenta, and the Paflions, though neceffary and perfectly adapted to the rank in which