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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    [ ] and with a violent forcing pain, almoft fimilar to labour pains. In three or four days more fhe had a difficulty in making water, and on the 19th fhe had a total fuppreffion of urine, which was obliged to be drawn off with the catheter four or five times. She had a fever, diarrhoea, and a large difcharge, fimilar to the fluor albus. Dr. Cowling was defired to fee her. She was examined by Mr. Slack per vaginam, and a fulnefs and bearing down were perceived on the fame fide. In little more than three weeks after delivery, the pain defcended into the groin, labium pudendi, thigh, and leg of the fame fide, which fwelled to three or four times the natural fize, and were very tenfe and painful. The parts which remained more particularly painful, were the groin, ham, and back part of the middle of the leg.