TREATMENT OF PUERPERAL SEPSIS

The Treatment of Puerperal Streptococcal Sepsis

DURING my residence at Belfast Infirmary I was entrusted with the immediate charge of the isolation department for the reception and treatment of patients suffering from puerperal septic infection. This privilege enabled me to investigate the identity of the causative organism in each case admitted. In the great majority I found this organism to be the streptococcus haemolyticus, isolated from ...

Puerperal Sepsis: A Review

Valedictory Address on the Treatment of Puerperal Sepsis

It is one of the traditions of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society that the retiring President deliver a valedictory address, in the course of which he should give an account of the work done during his term of office, and touch on any topic which might seem to him of general interest to the Fellows. 1 welcome the opportunity of congratulating the Society on its continued prosperity during the pa...

The Prevention of Puerperal Sepsis.

Intestinal obstruction due to a gall-stone is rare, but in 1914 Wagner16 collected 334 cases. The patients are usually fat women over 50 years of age, females being five times more numerous than male sufferers. The onset is sudden with vomiting, and at first pain and collapse are not prominent. The intestine, though obstructed, is not strangulated, as in a hernia, and since its vascular supply ...

Irregular Manifestations of Puerperal Sepsis