Author: Thos. Lothrop
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-03-11
Total Pages: 844
ISBN-13: 9780364341902
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Excerpt from Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 32: August, 1892, to July, 1893 IN A former paper read before this society, entitled Puerperal Fever, the febrile condition not due to septic infection, which complicate the lying-in period, were discussed. In this paper I shall endeavor to excite a discussion of the etiology of puerperal fever due to septicemic processes, and more properly named puer peral septicemia. Omitting all discussion of predisposing causes, it may be stated that the exciting cause of puerperal septicemia is the lodge ment of pathogenic bacteria in the maternal secretions and tissues, and, therefore, we have to discuss their modes of entry. From the teaching of some men who hold that all cases of puer peral septicemia can be prevented, it follows that the obstetrician is wholly blameworthy who finds one of his patients afflicted with septic invasion. I well remember the fear and trepidation with which I watched my first puerperal cases after studying the extreme views expressed by Dr. Garrigues in his book entitled Antiseptic Midwifery. Since then I have seen that the most care f ui physicians do meet with cases of puerperal sepsis, and usually these cases have developed just where the obstetrician was most observant of antisepsis, or had least reason to expect such trouble In hospital as in private practice, antiseptic measures have nearly exterminated childbed fever, yet the spectre still stalks abroad occasionally in the practice of even the most radical advocate of antiseptic care during the puerperium. If, then, we decide that rigid asepsis and antisepsis do not always insure against the septic infection of lying-in patients, it follows that the physician is not always responsible for the entry of pathogenic bacteria, and the question arises as to how such bacteria gain access to the system. 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.
