Volume 1
An introduction to the practice of midwifery / [Thomas Denman].
- Thomas Denman
- Date:
- 1805
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An introduction to the practice of midwifery / [Thomas Denman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![made its way into the bladder; and in others ithas infmuatedunder thecontinuing its cpurfc along the oj]a piihts till it arrived at the acetahulum. The mifchief being thus ex- tended, all the fymptoms were aggravated; and, the matter making its way towards the furface, a large abfcefs has been formed on the inner or fore part of the thigh, or near the hip, and the patients, being exhaufled by the fever and pro- fufe difcharge, have at length yielded to their fate. OrT the examination of the bodies after death, the track of the matter has been followed from the aperture of the abfcefs to theJymphy- fiSy the cartilages of which were found to be eroded, the bones carious, and the adjacent parts very much injured or deflroyed. It may, perhaps, be pofTible to difeover, by fome particular fymptom, when there is in this part a difpofition to fuppurate; or it may be difeovered when fuppuration has taken place. In all cafes of unufual pain, attended with equivocal fymptoms, it will therefore be necef- fliry to examine thefe parts with great care and attention. For when there is a difpofition to fuppurate, by proper means this might be re- moved ; and when matter is formed, if there be a tumefaclion at the Jyniphyfisj more efpeci- ally if a fluAuation couldbe perceived, we might deliberate upon the propriety of making an in- cifion to evacuate the matter j and by fuch pro- ceeding](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22039697_0001_0100.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
