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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    [ 6? ] this being granted, the absorbents can never take up such a quantity of lymph, as to endanger the bursting of a lymph- atic, or even to gorge it with lymph. This objection therefore, to my Theory, must fall to the ground. He says, p. 4-0, “Thirdly, If I com- “ press a lymphatic trunk, I readily “ force on its contents, if the remaining “ part of the road to the thoracic duct be “ obstructed, and then its sides will be “ squeezed together; and by reason of “ the thinness of its coats, it will in the “ compressed portion occupy the srnall- “ est share imaginable, so that it will “ hardly be ruptured in the place in “ which the pressure is made The answer to this is, that if the lymphatic trunk be compressed between two hard bodies, viz. the Gravid Uterus, and the brim of the pelvis on one side of the Os Pubis, when it forms a very obtuse angle, it may produce a slough, and in time