Pathological and practical researches on uterine inflammation in puerperal women / By Robert Lee.

  • Lee, Robert, 1793-1877.
Date:
1831
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    ever, aggravated by the slightest pressure of the hand, or by compression of the abdominal muscles, and from the early occurrence of nausea and vomiting in the worst cases of the disease, emetics obviously appear to be little calculated for the relief of the symptoms. The first favourable report of the effects of emetics was given by M. Doulcet, of Paris, in 1780, and it has been copied by almost all the English writers down to the present period, and has been considered as afford¬ ing unequivocal proof of the power of these remedies to arrest the disease. Doulcet commenced the employment of ipe- cacuan and kermes mineral in the month of June, 1782, according to Alphonse Le Roi, when the epidemic was ceasing. But these means were wholly inefficacious in the months of November and December, for the mortality was greater at this epoch, and at the beginning of the following year, than in 1780, when the remedy of Doulcet was not known ; and M. Tenon affirms, that the complicated puerperal fever in 1786 was curable by no means then discovered. • i '» ■ ' ; l v With regard to the treatment of inflammation of the uterine appendages, and of the deeper seat¬ ed tissues of the uterus itself, whether of the ab¬ sorbents, veins, or of the muscular structure, the symptoms from the commencement are generally