puerperal

• The story runs that Captain Tiemann made a pathetic appeal in behalf of the imaginary twin babies, that the doctor diagnosed it as a clear case of puerperal (which he pronounced "puerp[=e]rial") fever complicated with symptoms of cholera infantum, and ordered him to hospital at once! —  Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5
• A rise of temperature, a rapid pulse, a flushed face, a chill, pain or tenderness of the abdomen, and abnormal increase or decrease of the discharge, bleeding, or offensive odor of the discharge should cause suspicion of child-bed (puerperal) fever. —  Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
• Such collocation would include conditions which directly or indirectly affect the digestion, such as puerperal laminitis, drinking of large quantities of cold water and exposure to cold and rain when the body is warm. —  Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
• They also differed much in severity, the cases of puerperal origin being among the most formidable and fatal. —  The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
• While absent, last July, I visited two patients sick with puerperal fever, with a friend of mine in the country. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

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