"Puerperal fever" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the stomach of many people by the sound on striking it with the fingers, and comparing the sound with that of a similar percussion on other parts of the bowels; but towards the end of fevers, and especially in the puerperal fever, a distention of the abdomen by air is generally a fatal symptom, though the ease, and often cheerfulness, of the ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... the typhus fever. There was no one with the old man. A widow and her little daughter, strangers to him, but his neighbors round the corner, looked after him, gave him tea and purchased medicine for him out of their own means. In another lodging lay a woman in puerperal fever. A woman who lived by vice was rocking the baby, and giving her her bottle; and for two days, she had been unremitting in her attention. The baby girl, on being left an orphan, was adopted into the ...
— What To Do? - thoughts evoked by the census of Moscow • Count Lyof N. Tolstoi
... fruit, who can doubt? His professional labors are perhaps least known of any of his various activities, but they were many and varied, and not barren of good results. As a single illustration, take his treatise upon "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever," concerning which ...
— Home Life of Great Authors • Hattie Tyng Griswold
... childbirth, although a perfectly natural one, almost necessarily carries with it a certain amount of laceration, and, through the wound surfaces thus produced, absorption of poisonous material was formerly so frequent that puerperal fever figured prominently in mortality reports. It was Oliver Wendell Holmes—a graduate in medicine and a professor in the Harvard Medical School, though we are accustomed to think of him only as a delightful writer—who first declared that puerperal ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord |
