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An essay on phlegmatia dolens, including an account of the symptoms, causes and cure of peritonitis puerperalis and conjunctiva. etc / By John Hull.

  • Hull, John, 1761?-1843.
Date:
1800
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Credit: An essay on phlegmatia dolens, including an account of the symptoms, causes and cure of peritonitis puerperalis and conjunctiva. etc / By John Hull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i may, I think, fairly infer his acquaintance with this disease. In Book I. Chapter s. he treats of Abscesses and Corrosive Ulcers arising from Distempers of the Uterus in Child-bed, and amongst other observations relates the following case: “An Apothecary’s wife, living in my neigh- bourhood in the Old Bailey, after a hard child_ bed labour was seized with a fever, and great pain in her right thigh, from the groin and hip downward to the knee, swelling the member round, without inflammation or discolouring the skin, &c.’? The whole member was afterwards _ affected, and matter formed in different places, See Wiseman, loc. cit. But whatever opinions may be entertained concerning the extracts already adduced, it must be universally admitted, that Mauriceau was well acquainted with the symptoms of this disease, from the annexed account of it; which I have transcribed from the 5th edition of his Traite des Mal. des Femmes, &c., published at Paris in 1714. : «© Jai va plusieurs femmes aprés étre ac- couchées assez heureusement, avoir les jambes & les cuisses toutes cedemateuses & extraordi- nairement grosses; quelquefois depuis |’ aine jusques a ’ extrémité du pied, par fois d’ un seul cété & d? autres fois de tous lesdeum Cet B