An inquiry into the nature and cause of that swelling, in one or both of the lower extremities, which sometimes happens to lying-in women. Together with an examination into the propriety of drawing the breasts, of those who do, and also of those who do not give suck.

Bound with: White's 'Observations on gangrenes and morifications, accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasm, on arising from local injury, producing irritation' and 'A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women'

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 2011

Annotation: manuscript notes stating that the first edition was published in 1784 Inscription: 'Mr. Marsden Hilton from the author'