Notes on Dr. Macintosh's [sic] treatise on the puerperal fever / by James Moir.

  • Moir, James
Date:
1822
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Credit: Notes on Dr. Macintosh's [sic] treatise on the puerperal fever / by James Moir. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    spread with rapidity over the whole. Whoever^ therefore, will take up much time with nosolo- gical arrangements, will too often lose an op- portunity of doing good, which he never after- wards can retrieve.** Perhaps Dr Campbell has heard that white spots, like fragments of curdled milk, upon the fauces, constitute a species of inflammatory disease, vulgarly called the Thrush; and that a certain kind of ulceration (being a conse- quence of inflammation) on the uvula or ton- sils, is, by the profession in general, called Cy- nanche Maligna. Would the learned Doctor declare, that both diseases, arising from inflam- mation seated in the fine membrane, (called Sneiderian, his anatomical friend will tell him), which lines the nose, mouth, fauces, and throat, ought to be treated in the same way j and that a Practitioner called in to any such case, who should take up time in forming nosological dis- tinctions, might lose the opportunity of doing any good ? Every Practitioner, and every author of VERACITY, has agreed that there are certain marks of distinction between inflammation of the pe]:itoneum, of the womb, and of the intes- tines j and also that there are certain peculiari- ties.