Abdominal Hysterectomy for Acute Puerperal Metritis and Acute Salpingitis, with Record of a Successful Case
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The question of operative interference in puerperal infection is a very difficult one in many instances, and at the same time it is one of the highest importance. It is indeed comparatively seldom that one would be justified in performing hysterectomy in such cases, and yet there are occasions, as in the one I am about to record, where life can be saved by the procedure. Schultze, in 1886, laid down definite indications for hysterectomy in puerperal fever, as follows:?(1) There must be present in the uterus an active source of infection which cannot be successfully dealt with through the genital canal; (2) there must be
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