A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever as it prevailed in Edinburgh in 1821-22. To which is added an appendix containing the essay of the late Dr. Gordon on the puerperal fever of Aberdeen in 1789-90-91-92 / [William Campbell].

  • William Campbell
Date:
1822
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Credit: A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever as it prevailed in Edinburgh in 1821-22. To which is added an appendix containing the essay of the late Dr. Gordon on the puerperal fever of Aberdeen in 1789-90-91-92 / [William Campbell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - Aurnoucy the subject = fi Work has been already handled, in a superior - style, by several writers, yet the doctrines which are daily inculcated by teachers of eminence respecting it, appear to me so un- reasonable, and so much calculated to ensure the destruction, instead of the safety of those who are liable to be affected with the disease, that I consider it the duty of every person who may have witnessed it to any extent, to communicate the results of his is int to the profession. 19) ‘My situation as a public Lecturer in sic city, has afforded me an opportunity of wit- . nessing the progress and treatment of upwards of eighty patients labouring under it, during the last epidemic, of which more than forty examples are fully detailed in the following
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