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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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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    ♦ [.122 ] As soon as this swelling made its ap- pearance, I had no doubt what was the cause of it. Whoever will examine a skeleton, will immediately be satisfied, what part of the pelvis will be fractured, if a sufficient force be applied to the hip joint, that is, to the great Trochanter, which was the part that would first come into contact with the ground. It would be fractured in the body of the os pubis, which is the weakest part of that oval ring, which forms the brim of the pelvis, exactly where the lymphatic vessels wrap over the edge of that bone, and of course must inevitably rupture those lymphatic vessels, which are ruptured in the PI deg- matia alba dolens Puerperarum. How ' can we possibly account for the swelling of the left side of the scrotum only at the 1 expiration of a fortnight, but from the ; rupture of the lymphatic vessels of that sc side of the scrotum, and the mouths of , ai those vessels healing in that time, and U totally obstructing the passage ot the las lymph ? I on In;