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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    [ 6° ] cooling medicines and diet; and I have generally found it ufeful, to give two or three grains of James’s powder, made into a bolus with conferve of hips, three or four times a day, wafhing it down with the following draught. R. Aquas cinnammomi fimplicis drachmas decern, Spiritus nitri dulcis guttas viginti, Tinfturas thebaicas guttas fex, Salis rupellenfis fcrupulum unum, Syrupi violarum drachmam unam, mifce fiat hauftus. The neutral draughts given in the aft of effervefcence are very cooling and agreeable. Fresh fruit, all kinds of cool aci- dulated liquors, and cool air may be allowed the patient. As to the lochia, though the quantity of the difcharge is not always to be regarded,