Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, 1844
The malignant, or asthenic Puerperal Fever, on the other hand, is found in connection With in?ammation of an erythematic kind, the tendency of which is to extend insidiously from organ to organ, and from tissue to tissue. Occasioning Gem-purulent effusions, softening of muscular fibre and gangrene and film attacking both veins and absorbents.
In this fearful form of the disease a subtle poison appears to be generated, which is capable of being conveyed, either mediately or immediately, from a diseased to a previously healthy parturient patient. And of exciting a similar set of morbid actions. If the in?ammation be not checked at its onset, it seems to have the power of multiplying the poison, and of speedily depressing, irrecoverab'ly, the powers of the system.
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