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

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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$\ t 34 ] always much increafed upon walking* She wras delivered in bed of her next child, after a lefs laborious but lingering parturition, and has had no return of the diforder. Mr. Smith, of Stoke Newington, acquaints me, that he has met with feven or eight inftances of this diforder, in which the complaint was exceed- ingly troublefome. It always began in about fourteen or fifteen days after de- livery, and moftly on that fide on which they were delivered, (viz. the left.) In one inftance both fides were affe&ed. In moft of the cafes, it hap- pened in firft labours, which were commonly lingering and hard. Mr. Pool, of Altringham, who has great practice in midwifery amongft the farmers' wives in Chefhire, informs me$