The American text-book of obstetrics for practitioners and students . ed from the uterus of sick puerperalwomen. It would seem that the bacteriologists are less sure of the correctness oftheir assertions than they were six years ago, when this chapter was 1899 the German Gynecological Society had chosen puerperal fever asa special subject of discussion. Some of the greatest obstetricians and bac-teriologists were present, but there was little unanimity, either in bacteriolog-ical investigations or in the practical measures of treatment based so fundamental a fact as the
The American text-book of obstetrics for practitioners and students . ed from the uterus of sick puerperalwomen. It would seem that the bacteriologists are less sure of the correctness oftheir assertions than they were six years ago, when this chapter was 1899 the German Gynecological Society had chosen puerperal fever asa special subject of discussion. Some of the greatest obstetricians and bac-teriologists were present, but there was little unanimity, either in bacteriolog-ical investigations or in the practical measures of treatment based so fundamental a fact as the presence or absence of fever producingmicrobes in the vagina of pregnant and parturient women seems still tobe doubtful, and Kroenig, who was formerly the banner-carrier of thosewho denied their presence, has changed his mind in this respect.* Burkardt has examined the interior of the womb during the the first five days, and sometimes as much as eight, no germs are* Kroenig, Centrcdbl. f. Oyndk, 1899, p. 697. PUERPERAL INI i:< TION. SDecimen from a patient who died septic, showing the material that would be found to be removed bythe curette or the finger on the roughened placental site. Clots in the uterine sinuses (Army MedicalMuseum. Washington, 1>. C, No. 10,619). PATHOLOGY OF THE PUEBPEBIUM. 201 found. After the eleventh they abound, and there are even plenty of strep-tococci ; but since the patients all remained well, except for a slighl rise intemperature, li«*i11<jr a wound in continuity with tin- whole matter is of little practical importance. On the other hand, very serious illness and death may be d
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