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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$[ ] ther, it always begins either at the fmall of the back, or at the groin and upper part of the thigh, and labium pudendi on one fide ; whereas, the anafarca and the fwelling of the lower extremities in women with child, or thofe reduced by illnefs, begin in the fmall of the legs and feet, and afterwards afcend, and attack both the lower extremities, which are generally cold. It is not a phlegmon, or an erifipelas, as there is neither external inflam- mation, nor eruption; and though one labium pudendi is greatly fwelled, it never extends to the other in the fmalleft degree, except the limb on that fide is alfo fwelled ; neither is it an iliac ab- fcefs, or an abfcefs under the fafcia lata, as it never comes to fuppu ration. It cannot be owing to any defedr of the lochia, as it happens to thofe \vho have the moft regular difcharge : neither$