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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    [ 7* ] ** firm, and brawny” aneurismal tu- mors in the ham, which have been absorbed, after the Femoral artery has been tied15. Dr. Ferriar says16, “ Mr. White “ has laid particular weight on the com- “ mencement of the swelling at the “ groin, because he has made that fact “ the basis of his theory: and from his “ general accuracy I have no doubt “ such was the progress of the swelling in the cases which fell under his own “ observation. But it is not invariably “ the course oft the disease.” ■* * t' I have never seen nor read a case, which was the genuine disease, that the swelling did not begin there. The commencement of the swellhig at the groin, was not first noticed by me, but 15 See Medical and Chirurgical Transactions, vol. I. art. 9. p. 138. 16 Medical Histories, vol. 3. p. 110.