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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    / [ 48 ] the trunk or trunks of the lymphatics, by the preflure of the child’s head on them during the procefs of labour, or on the glands through which thefe trunks mull: pafs, and which lie on the edge of the pelvis. This may produce an adhefion of the cells of thefe glands, and make them impervious, and caufe a ftagnation of lymph in the extremity, and thereby produce the difeafe in queftion. The glands may perhaps in time recover themfelves, or the abforbents below the glands may go round, and take a new road. The objection to this theory is, that the diforder molt frequently does not ap- pear till feveral weeks after delivery, whereas one would have expected it always to have appeared in a few days, which feldom happens. Another conjecture may be, that the remote caufe is a laceration during labour, of Poupart’s ligament, or the peritonaeum