Phelps, Henry, 1766-1852. Extracts from a Treatise on lying in women & their Management by Charles White. B MS Misc., Countway Library of Medicine.

Undated manuscript with notes on fevers from a 1785 work on obstetrics by Dr. Charles White (1728-1813), written by Gloucester, Massachusetts, physician Henry Phelps (1766-1852). There are extracts on causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention of puerperal fever (fever associated with childbirth), in addition notes on miliary fever, milk fever, catamenia, and natural childbirth.

Biographical Notes

Henry Phelps (1766-1852), A.B., 1788, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, was a physician active in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the 1790s.

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