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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    [ 39 ] neither to a redundancy of milk, as it happens to thofe who have had many children, and are betwixt forty and fifty years of age, and to thofe who have had feveral children without fuck- ling them : nor to a depqfit of milk, as it happens under every circumftance attending that fecretion, and under every different treatment of the breafts: and if it were in any meafure owing to the milk, why fhould it be confined to one, or, at moft, to both of the lower extremities ; and why fhould the arms be particularly exempted from it, which, from the connection the breads have with the axillary glands, one would imagine would be firfl: and prin- cipally affeCted ? It cannot proceed from a metaftafis, or tranflation of matter of any kind; as it happens when there has been no previous illnefs, and frequently with- out a fhivering fit, or rigor, and never D 4 to