A dissertation on the puerperal fever : delivered at a public examination for the degree of bachelor of medicine, before the Reverend Joseph Willard, S.T.D. president, the medical professors, and the governors of the University at Cambridge, in America / by Peter de Sales la Terriere, from Canada.

  • Laterrière, Pierre de Sales, 1747-1815.
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
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Credit: A dissertation on the puerperal fever : delivered at a public examination for the degree of bachelor of medicine, before the Reverend Joseph Willard, S.T.D. president, the medical professors, and the governors of the University at Cambridge, in America / by Peter de Sales la Terriere, from Canada. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As Dr. Denman and Dr. Manning fuppofe that acrid kile chiefly, foments this difeafc, they begin with emetics, and then have rcconrfe to purgatives ; and they affcrt they have found this practice beneficial. Dr. Denman ufes the following formula. R. Tart, emetic gr. - - i Ocul. cancror. p. fcrup. i Intime mifceantur. The dofe is 6 gr. of this powdei ; and if the fivd does not produce any fenfible operation, he repeats it, in an en- creafed quantity, every two hours. He gives the faline draughts, which not only keep up the evacuation from the interlines, but likewife promote the filutary difcharges of urine and perfpiration. When a diarrhoea continues to fuch an alarming degree as to threaten a fatal termination*, he orders injections of ehicken water, but to be conducted wiih great care, on account of the extreme fenfibility of the parts contained in the pelvis. He then adminiftcrs the following draught : R. Pulv. ipecac. - - - gr. j Confeft. democrat, fcrup. i. Aq. alexit. fimp. vel. aq. cinam. fimp. unc. i m. Dr. Hulme, fuppofing that the proximate caufe of the puerperal fever is an inflammation of the omentum and in- terlines, fays, that the prcdifponent caufe is the prcfluie of the gravid uterus againfl: thefe parts. But Mr. White, another eminent Englifh practitioner, aiki, if this were tiie cafe, whether the diforderj would not take place before delivery, and be mitigated immediately after that period? Seeing the puerperal fever h a difcafe, more frequent ancj