67. Puerperal Fever.

Puerperal Fever

Puerperal Fever

commend curetting in acute cases, an operation which is practically condemned by all modern writers. No mention is made of any other operative treatment such as pelvic drainage, hysterectomy, ligature of pelvic veins, removal of tubes or ovaries, etc., all of which may have to be considered under certain conditions, nor does he seem to be aware that the treatment of puerperal septicaemia by mea...

The lesser pestilence: non-epidemic puerperal fever.

Puerperal fever was first described by Hippocrates.1 However, the epidemic form of the disease does not seem to have existed before the mid-seventeenth century, when "an unknown affection occurred at Leipzig in 1652 and returned again in 1665. It attacked puerperal women and was so deadly that but one in ten escaped".2 Sporadic outbreaks were recorded over the following century3 until the winte...

A New Mode of Treating Puerperal Fever

on puerperal fever, as it is fully described in many of our works on midwifery, and my object is merely to bring more prominently under the notice of the Society a mode of treatment which I have been induced to recommend, from its successful results in diseases of a similar nature, as well as in the few cases of this disease in which I have had the opportunity of employing it. For, although I h...

Puerperal Fever and Allied Infectious Diseases

tion on the subject culled from many sources and make3. An interesting and worth}7 effort to discover the source and say the blame for puerperal sepsis in the United Kingdom. Dr. Geddes concludes that the general practitioner who must necessarily attend a large number of accidents and suppurating wounds is the most to blame in that puerperal fever, is highest in manufacturing districts and lowe...