A treatise on the puerperal fever : illustrated by cases, which occurred in Leeds and its vicinity, in the years 1809-1812 / by William Hey, jun.

Hey, William, 1772-1844.

Date:: 1815

Credit: A treatise on the puerperal fever : illustrated by cases, which occurred in Leeds and its vicinity, in the years 1809-1812 / by William Hey, jun. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$CHAP, was able, by suitable means, to keep it within ,^w\-^ moderate bounds. ^'^ • On the following day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, I was called to her in haste, on account of an excruciating pain v/hich had sud- denly seized the abdomen. It conthmed for half an hour without remission; butj before my arrival, it had ceased. As the pain was not preceded by rigor, and the pulse was not accele- rated, I could not conclude the case to be one of Puerperal Fever; and therefore satisfied myself with prescribing an opening medicinCjand requesting to be sent for immediately, if the pain should return. Having heard no more from the patient, I visited her late in the evening ; and then found that the pain had returned, but with a less degree of severity; and, having had regular remissions, it had been mistaken for the common after- pain, and had therefore created little alarm. The abdomen had become very tender, and the pulse frequent. No doubt now remained on my mind of the nature of the disease; and, though the attack was less distinctly marked, than in most of the cases which I had seen, my later experience$