Chapter XV: Puerperal Mania (3)

[147] [The student may consult, with advantage, Dr. Dewees's chapter on Phlegmasia Dolens, in his "Treatise on the Diseases of Females," also the observations of Dr. Mann, in the "Massachusetts Medical Communications," vol. ii., and the interesting paper, by Professor Walter Channing, in the same work, vol. v. p. 46.--EDITOR.]

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