Essays on the puerperal fever and other diseases peculiar to womenFleetwood Churchill |
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abated abdomen abscess affected afterwards antimonial appear arising attack attended bark become belly bile bleeding blood body bowels breasts breathing cause cavity childbed fever circumstances clyster coagulated cold colour complaint consequence continued costive cure danger day after delivery death degree delivered diarrhoea died disease disorder dissection Ditto doses draught emetic emollient epidemic erysipelas evacuation fatal febrile fluid frequently gangrene given happen heat increased inflammation inflammatory intestinal canal intestines ipecacuanha irritability kind labour lochia Lying-in Hospital lying-in women matter medicines method milk morbid nature observed occasion omentum ounces pain particular patient pelvis peritoneum Peritonitis perspiration phlebitis physician placenta practice practitioners pregnancy prevent produce proper proved puerperal fever pulse purging putrid quantity quick recovered relieved remedies render seems seized seldom sometimes soon stomach stools strength suppuration sweat swelling symptoms taken tion tumour urine uterine uterus vagina vessels violent viscera vomiting wards weak whole woman
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Page 439 - I ARRIVED AT THAT CERTAINTY IN THE MATTER THAT I COULD VENTURE TO FORETELL WHAT WOMEN WOULD BE AFFECTED WITH THE DISEASE, UPON HEARING BY WHAT MIDWIFE THEY WERE TO BE DELIVERED, OR BY WHAT NURSE THEY WERE TO BE ATTENDED, DURING THEIR LYING-IN: AND ALMOST IN EVERY INSTANCE MY PREDICTION WAS VERIFIED.
Page 463 - It is a disagreeable declaration for me to mention, that I myself was the means of carrying the infection to a great number of women.
Page 463 - I had evident proofs that every person who had been with a patient in the puerperal fever became charged with an atmosphere of infection, which was communicated to every pregnant woman who happened to come within its sphere. This is not an assertion, but a fact, admitting of demonstration, as may be seen by a perusal of the foregoing table" — referring to a table of seventy-seven cases, in many of which the channel of propagation was evident.
Page 258 - London in the years 1760, 1768, and 1770, to such an extent, that in some lyingin institutions nearly all the patients died. Of the Edinburgh Infirmary in 1773, it is stated that 'almost every woman, as soon as she was delivered, or perhaps about twentyfour hours after, was seized with it, and all of them died, though every method was used to cure the disorder.
Page 32 - ... busy, meet with few or none. A practitioner opened the body of a woman who had died of puerperal fever, and continued to wear the same clothes. A lady whom he delivered a few days afterwards, was attacked with and died of a similar disease; two more of his lying-in patients, in rapid succession, met with the same fate; struck by the thought that he might have carried the contagion in his clothes, he instantly changed them, and met with no more cases of the kind.
Page 220 - Maternite", had not the poison been destroyed by a thorough purification. In private practice, leaving out of view the cases that are to be ascribed to the self-acting system of propagation, it would seem that the disease must be far from common. Mr. White of Manchester says, " Out of the whole number of lying-in patients whom I have delivered (and I may safely call it a great one), I have never lost one, nor to the best of my recollection has one been greatly endangered, by the puerperal, miliary,...
Page 224 - DURING THEIR LYING-IN : AND ALMOST IN EVERY INSTANCE, MY PREDICTION WAS VERIFIED." Even previously to Gordon, Mr. White of Manchester had said, " I am acquainted with two gentlemen in another town, where the whole business of midwifery is divided betwixt them, and it is very remarkable that one of them loses several patients every year of the puerperal fever, and the other never so much as meets with the disorder," — a difference which he seems to attribute to their various modes of treatment.
Page 15 - In 1828, the attack of puerperal fever was much more severe, proving fatal to 21 women. It continued to increase in violence considerably, in the months of January, February, and the early part of March, 1829, after which it disappeared, and for the four remaining years of my mastership we did not lose a single patient from this disease.
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Page 3 - This disease seized such women only as were visited or delivered by a practitioner, or taken care of by a nurse, who had previously attended patients affected with the disease.