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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    t C 3° ] is removed; andlaflly, in Tome patients there is a mixed crifis, compofed of a Diarrhaea, and fome of the fore-mentioned excretions. Diffeflionshave (hewn, that with refpectto the organs affe£led, there is confiderable dif- ference in different fubjefts, Drs. Leake and Hulme have almoft always found the omen- tum inflamed, fuppuratea, and even fallen in- to the hypogaflricregion; theinteflineswere likewife inflamed, and the uterus unaffecled; from which they have concluded that this difeafe does not arife primarily from the af- feftion of this organ. Johnfon and John- flone, on the contrary, have feen the ute- rus inflamed; and the obfervations of Pou- teau feem to agree with their remarks. In the obfervations of 1746, the inteflines and uterus are both faid to have been affe&ed, efpecially the uterus, in which the ovaria in fome fubje&s appeared in a ftate of fuppuration. In the obfervations of M. Doulcet the uterus was conflantly unaf- fefted.