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Credit: An essay on the puerperal fever / by Thomas Denman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ] cffe& of thefe operations; and we {hall then be able to judge of the propriety of repeating the powder. Buc when the evacuations are concluded, if any alarming fymptoms fhould remain, we need not hefitate to give the powder in the lame quantity as was firft ufed, though an equal quantity is not often neceftary, if the firft dofe has operated pro- perly. We cannot reafonably expedt that a difeafe, which exhibits fuch evident marks of dan- ger, Should inftantly ceafe, even if the principal part of the caufe fhould be removed. Yet we muft be careful not to rely fo far upon an abatement of the fymptoms, as wholly to delift from purfuing the method which produced the abatement ; for no difeafe is more liable to returns, which are ge- nerally more violent than the firft attack, and with accumulated danger. It muft alfo be obferved, that as the certainty of the cure often depends upon the due repetition of the powder, the cuftom of giving it at ftated hours is never eligible, and fometimes improper. If a iicknefs, loathing of the ftomach, or often? five tafte in the mouth attended the commence- ment of the difeafe, this medicine feldom fails to occafton vomiting, and the patient with a counte- nance ftrongly expreftive of the benefit fhe has received, will atteft the advantage of the method purfued. Nor does the medicine often fail to pro- cure](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21515554_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
