An inquiry into the nature and cause of that swelling, in one or both of the lower extremities, which sometimes happens to lying-in women : together with an examination into the propriety of drawing the breasts, of those who do, and also of those who do not give suck / by Charles White.

  • White, Charles, 1728-1813.
Date:
1784
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Credit: An inquiry into the nature and cause of that swelling, in one or both of the lower extremities, which sometimes happens to lying-in women : together with an examination into the propriety of drawing the breasts, of those who do, and also of those who do not give suck / by Charles White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    [ *9 ] and was removed into the lunatie hofpital, but is now perfectly recovered of all her complaints. CASE V. ( MARY BROWN, of Salford, aged 22, a very healthful young wo- man, was delivered of her firlf child on June 6, 1782, as £he lay upon her left fide; the child died foon after, but her breafts were well drawn, and her lochia moderate; on the ninth day after delivery, fhe was feized with a violent pain in her left groin, which foon began to fwell, and in a few hours the pain and fwelling extended to the labium pudendi, thigh, and leg of the fame fide, which became very tenfe and hard. The parts which were particularly pain- ful were, the groin, the ham, and back of the leg about the middle. She had the diforder very feverely, and the lower C 2 pare