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 (France)
Date:
1783
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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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    T ranflator’s-Prefacei-'^ TT is obfervable tHat of^all the difeafes which affli6l the Human body, there is perhaps none in which powerful remedies have been efice and lefs fuccefs, than in the Puerperal Fever. Dr. Denman obferves that this difeafe occafions the death of moft of the women who die in child-bed ; and it is faid in this report, that every woman who was attacked with it in the Hotel-Dieu of Paris, died, till the method of i cure here i:ecommended was a- dopted. Every attempt, therefore, to applied with more dilig