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.

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    [ 1(5 ] ■ ther the proximate cause of the swelling be seated in the lymphatic glands, or in the trunks of the absorbents, or at least where it commences. Mr. Trye allows that this disease is in consequence of parturition, by which an inflammation of a lymphatic gland maybe brought on by three accidents ; namely, pressure; the application of acrid matter ; or by inflammation conti- - nued from an absorbent. The objection to the theory of inflammation being brought on by pressure, as I have observed in page 4 of my former Inquiry, is, that the disorder, most3 frequently does not appear till several weeks after delivery, whereas one would have ex- pected it always to have appeared in a few 3 I have in that Inquiry inadvertently made use of the word most instead of 'very.—If I had said very frequently I. should have been perfectly correct. Dr. Ferriar in his animadversions on this passage says, “ I <( cannot avoid noticing that the possibility of account-