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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    [ 3° ] times a conglobate gland. She does • ^ not recoiled: doing any thing, fhe fays, which could occafion this complaint, except wafhing her hands in cold water. She recovered perfedly in lefs than three months. CASE XII. MARY ASHTON, of Salford, aged 43, was delivered, by Mr. Slack, of her third child, as fhe lay upon her left fide, on the 1 ft of April, 1783. The labour was a preternatural one. On the 12th day after delivery, fhe was feized with a pain in the fmall of the back, on the left fide, which foon extended down to the groin, la- bium pudendi, thigh, leg, and foot of the fame fide, which fwelled to a great fize. The glands of the groin, ham, and middle of the leg at the back part, were much enlarged, and very painful. She