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Credit: An essay on the puerperal fever / by Thomas Denman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 3* ] nearly as big as fhe had been before delivery. On the 3d I gave her four grains of the anti- gonial powder before mentioned, and finding no fenfible efleft, I repeated it in the fame quantity after two hours. She puked twice, and had feven- teen {tools, like yeaft in appearance, within fix hours after the repetition of the powder. When the operation of the medicine ceafed, the abdomen was almofl wholly fubfided, and the tendernefs and fever were much abated. As {he was much fatigued, I gave her a cordial draught, with a few drops of laudanum. She had fome quiet fieep in the night, and fweated profufely. There did not appear any neceffity of repeating the powder, and fhe recovered perfectly, without taking any other medicine except fome faline draughts, and afterwards the decodlion of bark twice every day. The event of this cafe, and of fome others which occurred to me about the fame time, were very flat- tering. I prelumed that 1 had at length difeovered a method of treating this fever, and a medicine which would feldom fail to anfwer the moft fanguine ex- peditions. But further experience has convinced me, that without previous, and perhaps repeated bleeding, this medicine will often fail to fubduethe fever, and that it is not unfrequently uncertain in its operation. I am however yet perfuaded that if wc have an opportunity of giving it foon after the ac- ceflton](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21515554_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
