A probationary essay on some important points connected with the pathology of puerperal fever : submitted to the Faculty of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow when candidate for admission ... / by Alexander John Hannay.

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1825
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    well as many other fevers deemed of an idiopathic nature, at least as the cause of their severity and complicated character—without seeing in it a symptom or state of the body, demanding more attention than it has hitherto obtained. The peculiar opportunities I have enjoyed dur- ing a long attachment to public institutions of vast extent, have given me the advantage of putting to the test of actual experiment, the views to which my studies of Barthez and of Broussais first initi- ated me; and, after numerous dissections, con- ducted with the utmost care, yet not unattended with the most repulsive, nay, nauseating circum- stances, 1 am still the more firmly convinced of the frequency, if not the inseparable connexion of the various shades and degrees of inflammation or irritation of the abdominal mucous tissue with febrile diseases. I have obtained, at various times, dissections of twelve cases of those who died labouring under the most marked and unequivocal symptoms of Puer- peral Fever. In all these cases, besides the ap- pearances so ably described, both in his work and in his lectures, by my friend Dr. John MTntosh, as characterizing the inflammatory state of the peritoneal membrane, indications of violently in- creased action of the vessels of the mucous texture
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