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Fifth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of England, 1843, Appendix Letter froiven in the letter of Mr Storrs, contained in the appendix to this report Mr Storrs suggests precautions similar to those I have laid down, and these precautions are strongly enforced by Mr Farr, who is, therefore, obnoxious to the same criticisms as myself

Hall and Dexter, in Am Journal of Med Sc for January, 1844-- Cases of puerperal fever seeham, in Provincial Med Journal, cited in Am Journ Med Sc for April, 1844--Six cases in less than a fortnight, seeinate in a case of erysipelas

West's Reports, in Brit and For Med Review for October, 1845, and January, 1847--Affection of the ar the placenta of a patient who died fro contagion, and to Keiller's cases in the Monthly Journal for February, 1846, as showing connection of puerperal fever and erysipelas

Kneeland--Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever Am Jour Med Sc, January, 1846 Also, Connection between Puerperal Fever Epidemic Erysipelas Ibid, April, 1846

Robert Storrs-Contagious Effects of Puerperal Fever on the Male Subject; or on Persons not Child-bearing (Fro Journal) Am Jour Med Sc, January, 1846 Numerous cases See also Dr Reid's case in same journal for April, 1846

Routh's paper in Proc of Royal Med Chir Soc, Am Jour Med

Sc, April, 1849, also in B and F Med Chir Review, April, 1850

Hill, of Leuchars--A Series of Cases Illustrating the Contagious Nature of Erysipelas and Puerperal Fever, and their Intiical Connection (From Monthly Journal of Med Sc) Am

Jour Med Sc, July, 1850

Skoda on the Causes of Puerperal Fever (Peritonitis in rabbits, from inoculation with different morbid secretions) Am Jour

Med Sc, October, 1850

Arneth--Paper read before the National Acadeiene, Tome LXV 2e Partie (”Means of Disinfection proposed by M Semmelweis” Semmelweiss) Lotions of chloride of li-in wards, Alleged sudden and great decrease of mortality from puerperal fever Cause of disease attributed to inoculation with cadaveric matters) See also Routh's paper,of the Edinburgh Medico-chirurgical Society Refers to cases of Dr Kellie, of Leith Sixteen in succession, all fatal Also to several instances of individual pupils having had a succession of cases in various quarters of the tohile others, practising as extensively in the same localities, had none Also to several special cases not mentioned elsewhere Am Jour Med Sc for October, 1851 (From New Monthly Journal of Med Science)

Sih Obstetrical Society (An ”es, whose ”name is as well known in America as in (his) native land,”

Obstetrics, Phil, 1852, pp 368, 375) The student is referred to this paper for a valuable resume ofto this subject Also for another series of cases, Mr Sidey's, five or six in rapid succession

Dr Simpson attended the dissection of two of Dr Sidey's cases, and freely handled the diseased parts His next four child-bed patients were affected with puerperal fever, and it was the first tientleentles' sixth letter), it follows that a gentleman with clean hands may carry the disease Am Jour Med Sc, October, 1851

Peddie--The five or six cases of Dr Sidey, followed by the four of Dr Simpson, did not end the series A practitioner in Leith having examined in Dr Simpson's house, a portion of the uterus obtained from one of the patients, had immediately afterwards three fatal cases of puerperal fever Dr Peddie referred to two distinct series of consecutive cases in his own practice He had since taken precautions, and not met with any such cases Am

Jour Med October, 1851

Copland--Considers it proved that puerperal fever ated by the hands and the clothes, or either, of a third person, the bed-clothes or body-clothes of a patient Mentions a new series of cases, one of which he saith the practitioner who had attended them She was THE SIXTH he had had within a few days ALL DIED Dr Copland insisted that contagion had caused these cases; advised precautionary measures, and the practitioner had no other cases for a considerable time Considers it CRIMINAL, after the evidence adduced,--which be could have quadrupled,--and the weight of authority brought forward, for a practitioner to be the ion and death to his patients Dr Copland lays down rules siested by myself, and is therefore entitled to the sa Medical Dictionary, New York, 1853

Article, Puerperal States and Diseases

If there is any appetite for facts so craving as to be yet unappeased,--lassata, necdue reular circumstance that the disease is occasionally more prevalent with one practitioner than another, has been exceedingly overrated” More than thirty strings of cases, more than two hundred and fifty sufferers from puerperal fever, more than one hundred and thirty deaths, appear as the results of a sparing estileaned as could be numerically valued These facts constitute, we ranted, but a small fraction of those that have actually occurred The nuh, 't will serve,” in Mercutio's modest phrase, so far as frequency is concerned For a just estiht be proper to consult the languid survivors, the ed husbands, and the motherless children, as well as ”the unfortunate accoucheur”

ON THE ANTISEPTIC PRINCIPLE OF THE PRACTICE OF SURGERY BY JOSEPH LISTER

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