Treatise on puerperal peritonitis / by A.C. Baudelocque ... to which was awarded the prize by the Royal Society of Medicine of Bordeaux. Translated from the French by G. S. Bedford.

  • Baudelocque, A. C. (Auguste César), 1795-1851.
Date:
1831
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Treatise on puerperal peritonitis / by A.C. Baudelocque ... to which was awarded the prize by the Royal Society of Medicine of Bordeaux. Translated from the French by G. S. Bedford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    437/492 (page 431)
    A cook, aged 21 years, after a severe preg- nancy which gave her much uneasiness, was na- turally delivered at the hospital of the School of Medicine, 30th September, 1826. Immediately after delivery, she was removed in her bed with all the’ precautions necessary to avoid exposure to cold. Notwithstanding this, she was seized with a chill more violent and longer than usual. This was soon followed by fever, colic and slight pains in the whole abdomen. The first of October, the patient had not slept during the night on account of the severe colic she experienced ; the abdomen was sensible on pressure, particularly towards the groins, and principally on the right side; the lochial dis- charge was diminislied ; pulse full, hard and fre- quent; skin dry and burning; thirst slight; the tongue was covered with a whitish paste. Infu- sion of linden sweetened with the syrup of gum ; absolute diet. In the evening the symptoms. augmented in intensity ; the lochia entirely sup- pressed; forty leeches applied to the abdomen. The 2d, blood flowed ail night from the bites of the leeches; the patient observed that her pains were not quite so intense; the abdomen was less sensible on pressure, but more in- flated; the pulse was neither so hard nor fre-