Report on puerperal fever in answer to queries from the General Board of Health / by John C. Douglas.

  • Douglas, John C.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Report on puerperal fever in answer to queries from the General Board of Health / by John C. Douglas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    ■ It must, however, be distinctly understood, that I here allude to the type of the pyrexia of epidemic fevers in Lying-in Hospitals. For I am led to be- lieve, when puerperal fever happens to be epidemic at large, in towns or districts, that its pyrexia is ra- ther of the synochal character, and requires for its subjugation the bold and decisive depletions, recom- mended in Dr. Armstrong’s invaluable treatise on this subject. f I