Facts and observations relative to the fever commonly called puerperal / by John Armstrong.
- John Armstrong
- Date:
- 1814
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Facts and observations relative to the fever commonly called puerperal / by John Armstrong. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![13 Aberdeen, and discovered that practitioners attend- ing one patient labouring under the disease, carried the contagion to other women, whom thej after- wards attended in parturition ; and I am now well convinced, that when puerperal fever is once generat- ed, there is almost always cause to apprehend its be- ing communicated to other puerperal women, especi- 9.\\y by accoucheurs and nurses who have previously waited upon affected persons. This is an important consideration, as it respects the prevention. Notwithstanding the many discoveries in chemis- try, we are yet entirely unacquainted with the pro- perties of the atmosphere, which are supposed to have an agency in the production of contagious and epidemical diseases. However, that this matter may still be open to investigation, I have given some ac- count, in the appendix, of the states and changes observed in the weather when this distemper was most predominant. It may, also, be worthy of re- mark in this place, that febrile, inflammatory, sto- machic, and intestinal affections were common at i]ic same time.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21515670_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
