Essays on the puerperal fever and other diseases peculiar to women : Selected from the writings of British authors previous to the close of the eighteenth century / Edited by Fleetwood Churchill.

Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1850.

464 (i. e. 444) pages

At head of title: By request of the Sydenham society

Numbers 265-284 omitted in pagination

Contents.--An historical sketch of the epidemics of puerperal fever, by the editor.--Essay on the puerperal fever, by Dr. Denman.--A treatise on the puerperal fever, by Dr. Hulme.--Observations on the childbed fever, by Dr. Leake.--A treatise on pregnant and lying-in women, by Charles White.--An essay on childbed fevers, etc., by Dr. Kirkland.--An account of the puerperal remittent fever, by Dr. Butter.--Observations on the puerperal fever, etc., by Dr. Joseph Clarke.--Practical essays on the management of pregnancy, etc., by Dr. John Clarke.--A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever, etc., by Dr. Gordon.--Miscellaneous essays: On the management proper at the cessation of the menses, by Dr. Fothergill. Cases of tumefaction of the labium after delivery, by Dr. MacBride. On cauliflower excrescence from the os uteri, by Dr. Clarke. Two cases of tumour of the uterus, by Dr. Clarke. Account of an excrescence from the womb, by Dr. Denman

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