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Credit: An essay on the puerperal fever / by Thomas Denman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ^9 ] cure copious (tools, which are uncommonly fetid, 2nd as was before obferved, in the loofe ones, lumps of hardened faces are intermixed. Their appearance fhould in feme meafure guide us with refpedl to the continuance of the evacuations, in proportion to which the abdomen fubfides, and the other fymptoms become more favourable. The urine is foon voided with more eafe, and in larger quantities, a moifture of the (kin or profufe fweat fucceeds, and the lochia which were before brown or pale, fetid, and in fmall quantities, become frefh and increafe. But we are to remember that the fmall quantity of the lochia is never to be ef- teemed as indicatory of difeafe, independently of other appearances, becaufe with refpedt to quan- tity they vary in every conftitution. At the fame time that we avail ourfelves of the advantage to be obtained by bleeding and the An- timonial Powder, we mu-ft not negledl the ufe of thofe means which contribute to procure immediate cafe or relief to the patient. Emollient clyfters in cafes attended with violent pain, especially if pre- ceded or accompanied with coflivenefs, are necef- fary and proper. Clyflers have alfo been efteemed of more importance than merely as the readied means of promoting (tools, or as a temporary fo- mentation to the bowels; for fome Phylicians of great experience, have thought they were able to remove](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21515554_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
