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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    / [ 15 ] f< is a probability that the original scat of “ obstruction and inflammation may in <e some instances be in the principal “ trunks of the absorbents within the pel- “ vis, independant of, and abstracted “ from the iliac glands, in which case “ the inflammation may be continued along the absorbent vessels downwards, that is towards the labium pudendi, “ leg, See. as well as upwards towards “ the thoracic duct.” In his preface he says, “ I can easily conceive, as I have mentioned in the “ appendix, that the obstruction to the “ return of the lymph, may commence “ in the primary inflammation of a trunk “ or trunks, and probably this may lie “ the case more frequently than I have “ hitherto discovered or suspected it to “ be.” So that Mr. Trye does not seem to have formed a definite opinion, whe- ther