PHYSICAL AND LITERARY. 41^: 



Art. XXXIV. 



Hijlory of a Fever after Child-bearing y by 

 the^ fame ^\ 



A Delicate young woman (who, for two 

 years before ilie was married, had, 

 from a fright, been fubjed:, at times, to a 

 kind of hyfteric epilepfy, efpecially at the 

 approach of the catametiia) about four days 

 after being fafely delivered of her firft child, 

 had a milk-fever, which came on attended 

 with languor, catchings and reftlefsnefs. She 

 was carefully treated with mild diaphoretic 

 and antifpamodic remedies both internally 

 and externally. A miliary eruption came out 

 upon her arms ; the lochia flowed regularly, 

 and the belly was kept moderately open : 

 yet {he got no reft, was delirious, her tongue 

 dry and black, and her pulfe quick and 

 fmall. A blifter was applied over her head, 

 which, without ^ny pain or ftrangury, pro- 

 duced a very large difcharge. The next 

 day, being the ninth from the beginning of 

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* May I. 1755. 



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