Volume 1

Cyclopaedia of obstetrics and gynecology ... / [edited] by Egbert H. Grandin.

Date:
1889
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Credit: Cyclopaedia of obstetrics and gynecology ... / [edited] by Egbert H. Grandin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ture ranges with the pulse. A. In normal cases, the absolute temperature is not elevated, while the function is establishing, above 98.2 to 99.4 F., figures which have, by common consent, been adopted as normal. B. Our researches teach us that the temperature after rising immediately after labor, falls the next day, rises during secretion of the milk about i a de- gree, aad then falls, or rises later according to circumstances. C. This slight rise in temperature may be attributed to the physiological work the marnm* are performing, but also to solutions in continuity of the genital organs, and to the modifications which are occurring throughout the body as a whole at this time. D. A rise above one degree points to the pres- ence of some morbid factor with the establishment of lactation. [In one hundred puerperse, primipar^ and multiparse, noted especially in regard to the so-called milk-fever, our own conclusions accord^with Ohantreuil's. Septic causes aside, a rise of temperature above 1° F., during the first three days after labor, calls simply for a cathartic. True milk-fever we have never seen.—Ed.]