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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    [ ] In case the 12th, that of Mrs. of Manchester, which is the first of the four here mentioned, the patient had, I must agree with the Doctor, both anasarca gravidarum,which was general all over her body, and peritonitis puer- peralis, but I cannot allow that she had the phlegmatia dolens, for the following reasons. The skin of the limb, had not the milky whiteness, but was inflamed, nor was the swelling confined to the Labium pudcndi of that side which was affected, but extended to both labia pudcndi. I will take the liberty of lay- ing before my reader, Dr. Hull’s own statement of this and some other cases. “ June 21st, 1800, in the morn- “ ing she was attacked with la- “ hour pains—the membranes burst, “ the os uteri dilated to about the size “ of a crown piece, and the labia puden- “ di were most enormously swelled.—She “ was delivered about noon.—July 6th, “ She was attacked with violent pain in “ the