CASES OF 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...

Cases of Puerperal Eclampsia

Two Cases of Puerperal Pleuropneumonia

The following cases of singular interest occurred in my practice in the latter part of last year. As they were observed with a considerable amount of care, and as I cannot but think they are not of very usual occurrence, and as I believe they might serve for encouragement to some medical brother in charge of patients similarly affected, I have deemed it advisable to publish them. It is to be no...

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...