Pathological and practical researches on uterine inflammation in puerperal women / by Robert Lee.

Date:
1831
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Credit: Pathological and practical researches on uterine inflammation in puerperal women / by Robert Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    peritoneal coat of the uterus in puerperal women do not essentially differ from those produced by ordinary peritonitis in the male sex. Where in- flamed, the peritoneum becomes vascular, red, ap- parently thickened, and a secretion or substance of a yellow colour in the form of false membrane, is thrown out, producing adhesion of the abdo- minal viscera to each other: or a turbid, serous, whey coloured or red fluid, mixed with shreds of albu- men or pus, is effused in greater or smaller quan- tity into the cavity of the peritoneum. Puerperal peritonitis usually commences in the peritoneum of the uterus, and extends from thence with greater or less rapidity, according to the se- verity of the attack, to the general peritoneal mem- brane. In some cases, the inflammation is con- fined to the uterus, and it is generally most severe in this organ, or in the parts immediately con- tiguous. Even when it has extended to the other viscera and affected them most severely, the pe- ritoneum of the uterus invariably exhibits signs of recent inflammation. The lymph is for the most part thrown out in thicker masses around the uterus than in any other situation, and this viscus has seemed to suffer in the greatest degree from the violence of the inflammation. Sometimes considerable depositions of pus are formed beneath the peritoneal coat of the uterus.