A treatise on the puerperal fever : illustrated by cases, which occurred in Leeds and its vicinity, in the years 1809-1812 / by William Hey, jun.

  • William Hey
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1815
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    r less success. Again^ he says, Those (the methods of cure) hitherto adopted have generally failed.* A professor of midwifery, in tlie university of Edin- burgh, declared the Puerperal Fever to be incurable; '' and another professor, in the same university, con- '' eludes his observations upon it with the following words : ^ From the above cases, and from all that has ' been yet written upon this subject, we may with great * truth conclude, that we know little of the nature and ^ still less of the cure of the Puerperal Fever.i' Such are the sentiments of these eminent practitioners respeciing the Puerperal Fever j and to their testimonies might 1)6 added many others of a similar nature. Their assertions might also be corroborated by facts equally strong and melancholy. In some accounts given of this fever, all who were seized with it are stated to have died, and in others, a very large proportion ; so that it has been considered as a fair computation, that three-fourths of the ^* women who have been attacked with this disease, have fallen sacrifices to it.J In such a state of alarm for the consequences of this destructive malady, and of dou])t and perplexity as to its true nature, it could scarcely fail to excite the interest of the medical world, to learn that a remedy had Tjeen discovered, which seemed almost to claim the merit of infallibiliiy. * Leake on the Child-bed Fever. Introd. p. 7, 8. t Gordon on the Puerperal Fever, Preface, p. vi.
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