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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    [ « ] in the lower part of the chest, attended with difficult respiration, and on the 22d the pain in the side went off, and a pain suddenly invaded the whole lower extre- mity, &c. August the 10th the right limb was attacked in the same manner. Does not this shew evidently that this was a continuation of one disorder, viz. dropsy? That it was not thephlegmatia alba dolens, I am perfectly satisfied. It not only wanted the pathognomonic symptom, the swelling of the corres- ponding labium pudendi and also the tu- mor albescens,but it had symptoms which are not compatible with this disorder, viz. p. 182, “ the cutaneous veins about “ the top of it, (the thigh) were much “ enlarged and blue, imparting a dusky “ colour to this part.” P. 184 “The “ cutaneous veins of the thigh were “ much enlarged, and appeared very “ numerous, so that the colour of the “ thigh was much altered.” There U