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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    [ 5 ] should view it, when it is complete, in its simple uncomplicated state. It is no doubt useful to report complicated cases, but they are not calculated to teach us, the true character of a disease, which has not been perfectly understood,sufficiently ascertained, generally acknowledged, nor accurately described. To take the character of a disease, when complica- * ted with others, would lead us into per- petual errors, as we should be constant- ly mistaking one disorder for another. We should likewise view it in every stage ; in its rise, its progress, at its acme, upon its decline, and its final termination ; we should examine whe- ther, and how often, it proves fatal, whether a perfect cure is ever, or always, obtained, and whether it happens at any certain period ; whether there is ever any metastasis, and whether it ever changes its type, &c. We should not iorm our opinions, upon one or two cases, but we should view it in different constitutions.