On some important points connected with the pathology of puerperal fever / by Alexander John Hannay.

  • Hannay, Alexander John, -1846.
Date:
1827
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Credit: On some important points connected with the pathology of puerperal fever / by Alexander John Hannay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The journal goes on to detail the progress of the case, a slight relapse, and her eventual recovery —and I may add, that she is at this day in per- fect health, excepting some hysteric symptoms, with which she has long been affected. Mary Cousins,* an unmarried woman, some time after a severe delivery,t part of which time she was out in the open air, had a severe attack of symp- toms very similar to the last narrated case, if we except the diarrhoea, which was very slight. The difficulty of obtaining leeches led me to use cupping of the abdomen, with the most beneficial effect. The same tenderness of abdomen in her case re- mained, and opium in the solid form was exhibited, after she had been seven times cupped on the ab- domen and inner side of each thigh—a measure no consideration would again make me practice, so great were her sufferings and the difficulty, in such a case, of performing this operation. I have to express, in conclusion, my earnest wishes that the doctrines, of which the views in the preceding pages are an extension to Puerperal * Her mother, with whom she resided, lives in the Holm—a newly built part of the village. I 1 have omitted to mark the exact day. I think it was during the fourth period of 24 hours after delivery.