A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever, as it prevailed in Edinburgh in 1821-22. To which is added, as appendix, containing the essay of the late Dr. Gordon on the puerperal fever of Aberdeen in 1789-90-91-92 / By William Campbell.

  • Campbell, William, 1788-1848.
Date:
1822
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Credit: A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever, as it prevailed in Edinburgh in 1821-22. To which is added, as appendix, containing the essay of the late Dr. Gordon on the puerperal fever of Aberdeen in 1789-90-91-92 / By William Campbell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRVEFACE. Although theipubject yeated of in this Work has beeiTafeeady hai^led, in a superior style, by several writers/ yet the doctrines which are daily inculcated by teachers of eminence ^spetiiing it,/appear to me so un- reasonable, and»io much calculated to ensure the destructteiW insteadiof the safety of those who ai;e ii^ile t^ be alFected with the disease, that I osmsidef^it the duty of every person who may h^e witnessed it to any extent, to communicatfe^e results of his experience to My siti^Hon as a public Lecturer in this city, has afforded me an opportunity of wit- nesst^ th^iiJ<^gress and treatment of upwards of eigluy patijQnts labouring under it, during the last epidemic, of which more than forty examples are fully detailed in the following