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Credit: An essay on the puerperal fever / by Thomas Denman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 3° ] remove a great part of the caufe, or to prevent the continuance of the difeafe, by directing them to be adminiftered fo frequently, that they were at length returned without any mixture of faces. Fomentations, or vapour-bathing, or even the warm bath, may fometimes be ufed with advantage, but I think a folded warm flannel, well fprinkled with brandy, and occafionally renewed,is one of the befi: and moil comfortable applications. When the pain is confined to one part of the abdomen, a blifler- ing plaifler applied direCtly to the part, may always be recommended with fafety, and will fometimes do much fervice. Plentiful dilution being abfo- lutely neceffary, the patient fhould be carefully fupplied with proper drink, in fmall quantities often repeated. The moil palatable and generally the beft, is chicken water, or very weak beef tea ; or if objections are made to thefe, barley water, thin gruel, milk and water, whey, and tea of almoft any kind, may be drank at pleafure. In this manner I treated the wife of a foldier in the guards, whom I attended July i, 1767, in a fafe, but tedious labour. She was of a very ftrong habit of body, and upwards of thirty years of age. About thirty-fix hours after the birth of the child, the was feized with a violent fhivering, followed with fevere pains in the abdomen and loins, and within a few hours from the attack of the diforder, became * nearly](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21515554_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
