Treatise on puerperal peritonitis / Tr. from the French by G. S. Bedford.

  • Baudelocque, A. C. (Auguste César), 1795-1851.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Treatise on puerperal peritonitis / Tr. from the French by G. S. Bedford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    to; but there is nothing in this influence which has any special connection with the etiology of peritonitis, and we shall, therefore, not occupy ourselves with it at this moment. Pregnant women sometimes experience certain inconveniences, which depend exclusively upon their particular condition, and which do not cease until after delivery. It has not been observed that these females are more frequently subjects of peritonitis, than those whose entire term of gestation has been tranquil and undisturbed ; and we have often been astonished at the promp- titude with which health succeeds to their con- tinual sufferings. But I have had occasion to remark, that there is often an inflammation of the peritoneum soon after confinement, when an actual or latent chronic affection has exist- ed during pregnancy. The following is a re- markable example of this inflammation, which, under similar circumstances, ordinarily yields with facility to the administration of proper reme- dies. The wife of one of my colleagues became pregnant for the second time, in the year 1824. She did not quit hcrbed, being obliged to remain there upon her right side, in consequence of a disease of the left femoral articulation