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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    / [ 25 ] to fuckle, they were not drawn; and after a confiderable fecretion of milk, they fubfided gradually, with no ap- parent inconvenience or diflurbance. She feemed to recover extremely well, and in a little more than a fortnight was able to walk down flairs. At the end of about three weeks, fhe feemed rather lofing ground again, her appetite growing worfe, with flufhings and heat, and little ulcers in the mouth. Livid blotches appeared in various parts, - efpecially in her arms, and fhe grew low and weak. At the end of four weeks, her complaints continued, with a pretty large and offenfive difcharge per vaginam, attended with violent forcing pains, and excoriation. Her pulfe was quick, her tongue foul, fhe had great pain in her back on getting up, or fitting down, and a conflant fenfe of chillnefs beginning from the lumbar vertebrae. Soon after this the right groin, thigh, and labium pudendi, began