Milk fever : a treatise to show the relation which exists between the rise in temperature on the third to fifth day, and the beginning of the milk secretion : graduation thesis presented to the Harvard Medical School / by Samuel Howe.

  • Howe, Samuel.
Date:
1876
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    fox’ at certain periods these never constant fevers seldom or never appear. Berndt, in 1S46, considers that the milk fever is not the re- sult of topical injniy, but is due to the change in the whole sys- tem connected with the milk secretion. Levret thinks that the milk fever is a physiological condition, the consequence of a change in the whole system brought on by the beginning of the milk secretion. Winckel gives very much the same opinion as Kiwisch, ex- cept as regards the atmospheric influences ; these he does not mention. Swieten and Eisenmann consider the milk fever a true wound fever, caused by the separation of the placenta from the utei’us. Locock, in 1843, attribxxtes the fever to too nourishing diet, too warm an atmosphere in the lying-in room, to too great exertion and fatigue in nursing, and also to violent mental excitement. This view is also held by Weissner in 1846. Of French authors, Jacquemier, in 1846, says: “Les plxe- nomcnes dependent de la stagnation de la retention du lait dans les vaisseaux galactophores avec ou sans irritation inflam- matoire de ceux-ci.” Velpeaix, in 1854, gives the same opinion. Scanzoni, in 1855, considers the fever due to an insufficient emptying of the milk-vessels, and thinks the term milk fever not a bad one. Hope, iix 1862, says that the fever known as milk fever is not connected alone with the secretion of the milk, but that it is much more likely to be due to a sudden rush of blood to the surface. Grenser, in 1863, in speaking of the breasts, says that es- pecially when the child is put to the breast late, or there are errors in diet, and when the gland is small and ill-prepared to carry on the work, the beginning of the secretion of milk is at- tended with fever. Winckel, who first made investigations with the thermometer on the physiology and pathology of childbed, and showed the importance of its use, both as regards diagnosis and prognosis, in his work, “ Pathologie und Therapie des Woclienbetts,” and also in a former article on the very subject, considers the term milk