Art. XV.—Zymotic diseases, as more especially illustrated by puerperal fever

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...

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...

A Treatise on Puerperal Fever, Illustrated by Cases Which Occurred in Leeds and Its Vicinity, in the Years 1809-12

to embarrass the younger classes of the profession in their first outset, and indeed for a long period afterwards; since the fatality of the disease will cause much vaccillation in the treatment of it. We have therefore much pleasure in portraying the contents of a volume from so very respectable an authority as that of Mr'. Hey, in which a practice is recommended that is easy of application an...

"The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever? (1843), by Oliver Wendell Holmes

In 1843, physician Oliver Wendell Holmes [2] wrote and published "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever," an essay about puerperal fever, a disease that occurs mainly as a result of bacterial infection in the uterine tract of women after giving birth or undergoing an abortion [3]. In the essay, Holmes argues that puerperal fever is spread through birth attendants like physicians and midwives wh...