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

  • Lee, Robert, 1793-1877.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Pathological and practical researches on uterine inflammation in puerperal women / By Robert Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    : » '*« St*!? ' ' the influence he supposes, for of forty-three cases where mercury was used as the chief remedy, only fourteen recovered, « P f/ :f « V '*~t r* r ^1 cannot conclude th-ft subject, which is unques- ' «T ^ • t*. ' - ^ tionably the most important in obstetrical medi¬ cine, without pointing out the necessity which there exists for a full investigation of the means best calculated to prevent the occurrence of uterine inflammation in Lying-in Hospitals, where its dreadful fatality has been recorded by all writers since the foundation of these institutions. From the Registers of the British Lying-in Hos¬ pital, Maternite at Paris, the Dublin Lying-in Hospital, and the Tables of M. de Chateau Neuf, it is proved that the average rate of mortality greatly exceeds that of establishments where in¬ dividuals are attended at their own habitations $ and if it should ultimately appear, that all pre¬ cautions are unavailing in diminishing the num¬ bers attacked with the disease, it will then be¬ come a subject deserving of serious consideration, whether Lying-in Hospitals should not be consi¬ dered upon the whole more injurious than bene¬ ficial to society. G. Woodfall, Printer, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London.