Excerpt from Essays on the Puerperal Fever and Other Diseases Peculiar to Women: Elected From the Writings of British Authors Previous to the Close of the Eighteenth Century There are few diseases so fraught with associations of distress as Puerperal Fever when it prevails epidemically. The course of a favourable convalescence after parturition suddenly interrupted, and without any appreciable cause, exchanged for symptoms which excite the utmost alarm in the physician: the anxiety and anguish of those so lately rejoicing, the blighting of the sweetest hopes in life, and finally the rupture of its dearest ties, and the melancholy desolation of a home but lately the abode of happiness. This 18 but a slight sketch of the picture which presents itself to the mind when this fearful disease is mentioned - a picture whose gloom is heightened by the inutility of all precautions to guard against its attacks, and, in the majority of cases, the utter failure of all attempts to arrest its progress or to prevent its fatal termina tion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.