The historical controversy regarding priority in the discovery of the contagiousness of puerperal fever' persists, most medical historians ascribing it to two nineteenth-century physicians: the American Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)2 and/or the Hungarian Ignaz Semmelweis (I1818-1865).3 That conclusion, however, is not borne out by this study. It is true that Holmes was the first American ph...

Inversion of uterus is a rare clinical condition, if not associated with puerperium or third stage of labour. Non-puerperal uterine inversion usually results secondary to tumour implanted at fundus of the uterus. An unusual case of non-puerperal uterine inversion caused by a large submucosal fundal fibroid is reported where a 39-year-old woman presented with heavy bleeding per vaginum and profu...

The following notes of a case of puerperal convulsions will, I trust, prove of great professional interest to the many readers of your journal owing to the unusual nature of some of the symptoms therein recorded. Some time ago I was hurriedly called in to see a Bohra woman, suffering from violent puerperal convulsions. She was a young, well-built woman of 2-3 years, in her tenth month of pregna...

MANY unusual problems confront the surgeon working overseas. Solutions may not be easy to obtain from the literature available locally. In Britain, with excellent obstetric care universally available, chronic puerperal inversion of the uterus is hardly ever seen nowadays, but elsewhere one may occasionally have to treat this condition. British authors quote an incidence of about i in 30,000 del...

A 16 year old Chinese female with puerperal ovarian vein thrombophlebitis following uneventful vaginal delivery is reported. This infrequent, but potentially fatal, complication in the febrile postpartum patient may present as a surgical emergency. Non-invasive diagnostic procedures and conservative treatment with heparinization and antibiotics have been suggested. However, early exploratory la...

MANY unusual problems confront the surgeon working overseas. Solutions may not be easy to obtain from the literature available locally. In Britain, with excellent obstetric care universally available, chronic puerperal inversion of the uterus is hardly ever seen nowadays, but elsewhere one may occasionally have to treat this condition. British authors quote an incidence of about i in 30,000 del...

SEPTOJOD,* which appears to have been introduced in 1920, has been used widely in German-speaking countries for septic conditions on the assumption that nascent iodine is liberated by this preparation in the presence of septic material. It has been especially popular in the treatment of puerperal sepsis. In 1926, Schimmel and Riehm reported two cases of blindness following the intravenous injec...

A study was carried out in Misungwi and Kwimba Districts, Tanzania to determine the effectiveness of clean delivery kits in preventing cord infection and puerperal sepsis and to provide qualitative information on community acceptability, correct use, and appropriateness of the kits. This study involved pregnant women aged 18-45 years old. In the delivery kit intervention population, the Materna...

Nephrolithiasis affects 10 % of general population and does not spare the pregnant population. Incidence of urinary tract calculi is infrequent during pregnancy with wide variation from 1 in 244 to 2000 pregnancies [1]. Although a simple stone event is usually straightforward in the general population, it is complex during pregnancy. Acute nephrolithiasis in pregnancy may be asymptomatic or pre...