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the body, tensive pain over the forehead, pecu- 

 liar wildness of the eyes, prostration of the vital 

 powers, suppression or diminution of the milk 

 and lochia, a flaccid state of the brest, and upon 

 drawing them, blood instead of mi.k is frecpient- 

 ly discharged. The progress of a child bed fe- 

 ver is sometimes so very rapid, particularly in 

 warm climates and hot seasons, as to destroy the 

 patient in forty-eight hours. Even in cases aeem- 

 iBgly the most favorable, you should look on 

 the event as doubtful, as the complaint is to be 

 acronip'.-nied with delusive remissions, and indi- 

 cations arise in its progress, which are by no 

 neans e»]ualto the danger. The cauf-es are va- 

 rious, and sometimes the disorder is inflamma- 

 tory, but it soon tends to the putrid kind, and 

 sometimes from the beginning a putrid fever. 

 In the first stages of this complaint, the inlernal 

 beat must be increased by giving hot medicine, 



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lowing each other. By pursuing this coarse 

 strictly, you overpower the cold, the natural heat 

 teturtig to the inside where it properly belongs, 

 and the surface of the body beconieH cool and 



pUasant; m this way you may save the 

 jour patient, if a gentle purging arises 



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