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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    r - . [ ** ] labia pudendi suddenly swelled to ail enormous size, and, in the last pain, burst, and poured out a great quantity of blood, and the lady fainted away. My late father, Ur. Thomas White, who practised midwifery, was immediately sent for. He found her in a dying si- tuation, from the great loss of blood, which had proceeded from the labium, there not being any flooding from the uterus, or vagina. She expired in less than an hour, after her delivery. I have ihet with two cases of this kind, but the patients both recovered. There is another misfortune Which women are liable to, in consequence of labour pains. Dr. Smellie in his Treatise bn the theory and practice of Midwifery, p. 390, gives the following description of it. “ If in consequence ** of the long pressure of the child’s head at that part of the vagina where ** its outward surface is attached to the back