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.

  • Hey, William, 1772-1844.
Date:
1815
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ploying the lancet, in a disease attended by such CHAP. sudden and early sinking, and in which both these remedies had been so strongly confiemned. Inirod. It has just been remarked, that the disease in question was very unlike any which had ever been known in Leeds. Wherein then did the difference between this and the more common forms v/f Puerperal Fever consist 3 and what was its dislinguishing characteristic ? I wish it may be understood, that I speak now only of what has occurred in my own practice, without any reference to the accounts given of the disease by authors ; and, with this proviso, I must say, that I know no essential difference, but the greater severity of the disease; no distinguish- ing character, but that of its being epidemic.— These are the only distinctions which would have been of any real value to me in practice; for I found that the remeaies which were benefi- cial, and generally availing, in the cure of the in- cidental or sporadic Puerperal Fever, though proper in their kind, and useful to a certain ex- tent in alleviating symptoms, were totally inade- quate to the cure of this severe Epidemic. Dr. Kirkland seems to suppose, that the genuine Puerperal Fever is never epidemic;