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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    MnomBHi * ' [ 82 ] can trace the gradual increase of the lymphatics in every instance, from the groin to the ends of the toes. \ As it has been so confidently asserted that the transient labour pains are unable to burst a lymphatic, let us see what mis- fortunes they are capable of effecting. Ur. Macbride in the 5th. vol. of the Medical Obs. and Inquiries* art. viii. p. 89, informs us that “ There is “ an accident to which women are liable “ in the time of labour, that has escaped “ the notice of all the writers with whom “ I have been acquainted, but which “ nevertheless, is accompanied with “ great distress, and appearances that “ are extremely alarming, and it is this; “ Some of the blood vessels bestowed on “ the vagina and parts which constitute “ the os externum are ruptured, and the ,c blood beinsc accumulated in the in- iS terstices of the cellular membrane, “ .immediately