A report, made by order of government, of a memoir, containing a new, easy, and succesful method of treating the child-bed or puerperal fever, made use of / by the late M. Doulcet ... ; translated from the French ; to which are added notes ... by John Whitehead.

  • Doulcet, Denis-Claude, 1722-1782.
Date:
1783
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Credit: A report, made by order of government, of a memoir, containing a new, easy, and succesful method of treating the child-bed or puerperal fever, made use of / by the late M. Doulcet ... ; translated from the French ; to which are added notes ... by John Whitehead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fometimes fooner, feldom laterb. In fts commencement the belly is affe&ed with confiderable diflenfion, and becomes ex- tremely painful, without any diminution of the lochia which hill continue to flow €. The h Dr. Leake obferves that this difeafe fometimes came on foon after deliver)', and at other times, though rarely, it has been known to appear as late as the fifth or fixth day*. But Dr. Denman thinks that this Fever, comes on fometimes at a much later period than is commonly fufpe&ed +. c The quantity of the lochia is frequently not at all diminifhed, at other times it is very much lelfened : what flow are fometimes very foetid, and in fome cafes this difcharge is totally fuppreffed J. Dr. Leake’s account of the Hate of the lochia is fome- what different. The lochia, fays he, from firft to laft, were not obftrufied nor deficient in quantity, neither did the quality of this difcharge feem to be in the leafl altered from its natural flate §. But Dr. Denman tells us that an inftantaneous change or fuppreffion of the lochia takes place, though he thinks that a fuppreffion feldom happens ||. * Leake on the Child-bed Fever, p. 40. f Denman on Puerp. Fever, p. 7, | White on the management of pregnant and lying-in women, p. 16. t( Leake on the Child-bid Fever, p. 53. j] Denman, Loc.Citat. p. g, B 2 If