Practical essays on the management of pregnancy and labour; and on the inflammatory and febrile diseases of lying-in women / By John Clarke.

  • Clarke, John, 1761-1815.
Date:
1793
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Credit: Practical essays on the management of pregnancy and labour; and on the inflammatory and febrile diseases of lying-in women / By John Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ' to fall into the ftate of difeafe defcribed in this Effay, efpecially in lying-in hofpitals, and among Angle women, the diftreffed ftate of whofe minds before their admiiiion may have given greater force to the epidemic dii- pofition. Before I conclude I ought to obferve, that violence occafioned during labour may pro¬ duce (though rarely in fuch conftitutions) inflammation of the uterus or peritoneum, which, exifting along with a low fever, may fometimes make rather a mixed cafe. Here the greateft fagacity and judgment are re¬ quired to determine what mode of treatment * will beft accord with thefe circumftances. The fituation of the patient is fo dangerous and fo critical, that it is impoffible to be too much upon our guard. An unwary pradti- tioner, under the idea of carrying off inflam¬ mation, might be feduced into employing evacuations: but he will difcover too late, when this has been done, that his patient will fink fooner under the depreffion there¬ by occafioned. A prudent man will never fail to remember that all remedies which reduce the ftrength much, muft be very cau- tioufly admitted. This is a point which I N . wifli