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Credit: An essay on the puerperal fever / by Thomas Denman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ >3 ] with it. There is however much variation in the fubfequent ftages, but there is fcarce a worfe omen than a very weak and accelerated pulfe, even though the other fymptoms may feem to be abated. The figns of inflammation continue for a few days, when thofe of putridity appear, fooner per- haps in this, than in moft other difeafes, which are originally of the truly inflammatory kind. The teeth very early colledt a brown adhefive fordes, and all kinds of food and drink are naufeat- ed, except fuch as are agreeable from their coldnefs or fharpnefs. A fingultus attends, every return of which affeffs the abdomen in the moft painful man- ner. Petechia or 'vibices are often found in un- wholfome fituations and in fome conftitutions of the air, at a very early period of the difeafe, and there are frequently miliary eruptions; but the latter feem rather a confequence of the method of treatment than of the difeafe, for they do not afford that relief which often follows their appear- ance in true eruptive fevers. The bowels are in general very much difturbed, and in fome cafes a loofenefs takes place immedi- ately upon the acceflion, in others three or four days after, or not till the l ift ftage of the difeafe ; but it very feldom fails to attend, nor can it be removed without the greateft difficulty as well as danger before the dileafe is . terminated. The .* i ^ ‘i * ftools](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21515554_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
