A report, made by order of government, of a memoir, containing a new, easy, and successful method of treating the child-bed or puerperal fever, made use of by the late M. Doulcet ... : read at a meeting of the Royal Medical Society, held at the Louvre, the 6th of September, 1782 / translated from the French ; to which are added notes, containing a view of the nature and causes of this alarming and fatal disease, by John Whitehead.

Société royale de médecine

Date:: 1783

Credit: A report, made by order of government, of a memoir, containing a new, easy, and successful method of treating the child-bed or puerperal fever, made use of by the late M. Doulcet ... : read at a meeting of the Royal Medical Society, held at the Louvre, the 6th of September, 1782 / translated from the French ; to which are added notes, containing a view of the nature and causes of this alarming and fatal disease, by John Whitehead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$' [ 21 ] immediately following delivery; in all, the difeafe is obferved to be dangerous, rapid, and extremely fatal; often epidemic, and fometimes contagious; in every defcrip- tion a Diarrhaea is obferved to attend fooner or later‘J; but the llate of the lochia, the fecretion of the milk, the or« gans affefted, the ftate of the pulfe and ftrength, and the appearance of the fluids evacuated, are not in every account the fame. - All agree that the lochia fometimes flow freely to the end of the difeafe ; but they are often obferved to be diminiftied, or ^ The loofenefs fometimes comes on immediately, at others, when the difeafe hath continued three or four days; but it conftantly attends, and cannot be removed without the greateft danger as well as difficulty,, till the termination of the difeafe *. • I never faw this Fever appear with any degree of v\o’- lence, fays Dr. Leake, but it was always attended with an obftinate Diarrhaea t. * Denman's EJfiy on the Puerp. fner, p. ia. i Leake on the Chilet-hed fever, p, <19. totally$

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