A System of Midwifery

CHAPTER XIV. PHLEGMATIA DOLENS.

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Nature of the disease.--Definition of phlegmatia dolens.-- Symptoms.--Duration of the disease.--Connexion with crural phlebitis.--Causes.--Connexion between the phlegmatia dolens of lying-in women and puerperal fever.--Anatomical characters.--Treatment.--Phlegmatia dolens in the unimpregnated state, 463