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.

  • White, Charles, 1728-1813.
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    [ >13 ] had no other to produce. {!.’*• . . fi J K l.H Jane Waters of Garden-street, Sal- ford, in her second pregnancy, and in the 21th year of her age, enjoyed as good health, as any person in that situation, having no particular complaints. After a very laborious parturition which had con- tinued four days, she was delivered by Mr. Charlton, on the 26th of December, X797, as she lay upon her left side. In thirty hours after delivery, she was attacked with violent pain in her loin, and hip, on the left side, and afterwards in the ham and knee. She experienced no rigors, nor other symptoms of fever, before the pain seized her. In about two days after, the swelling began to ap- pear, first in the groin, labium pudendi, and upper part of the thigh, on the left fide, and descended to the leg and foot; the swelling was elastic, tense, uniform, and attended with great pain, particu- Q larly