Milk, or Puerperal Fever, Is a common disease with cows in high condition, at the time of calving.
Next to vaccination for small-pox, probably the most important advance in nineteenth century medicine was the discovery of the cause of puerperal fever, and the consequent diminution of the death-rate from that very fatal disease.
Holmes's work was in pointing out the fact that physicians who attended patients suffering from erysipelas and then waited on obstetrical cases, were especially likely to carry the affection, which manifested itself as puerperal fever.
The consequence was that he infected them, and puerperal fever was contracted.
At what period of their life are cows the most liable to be attacked with puerperal fever?
Which is the best method of treatment to pursue with cows when attacked with puerperal fever?
In the table which I have given respecting question 2, the reader will recollect that I stated that puerperal fever supervened in five cows immediately after parturition.
Of the various questions which present themselves to traders and owners of cattle respecting puerperal fever, the following are, perhaps, a few of the most important: First.
Promote the secretions and excretions in the manner already referred to under the head of Puerperal Fever; this will relieve the stricture of the surface.
One of the best examples of insanity arising from micro-organisms is that form which occurs after childbirth, and which is known as puerperal mania.
The infective origin of puerperal mania is undoubted, though, as yet, no special pathogenic organism has been isolated.
And again, careful inquiry has failed to show a proportional increase of admissions into asylums of such well-marked forms as general paralysis, puerperal mania, &c.
Grandidier, falling in love with a very beautiful girl, had married her; but for five years now she had been insane: the result of puerperal fever and the death of an infant son.
Poison was of course suspected; but her death was really caused by puerperal convulsions (eclampsia).
It has indeed been asserted that the slow pulse characteristic of the puerperal period is really due to the common administration of ergot at that time.
In 1843, Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote a paper in which he contended that puerperal fever was contagious.
Defn: Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever.
A form puerperal peritonitis in cattle; also, a variety of meningitis occurring in cows after calving.
The forms of mental disturbance commonest in puerperal insanity are mania with or without delirium, melancholia, and dementia.
A woman who has had puerperal insanity and has recovered her mental health is likely to have a recurrence of her malady at subsequent pregnancies.
Sometimes, however, the mania of puerperal chorea persists for months, or it may become even permanent.
Maniacal chorea differs from the mania of the puerperium from other causes: in maniacal chorea the woman is not so sullen, and is more garrulous than the patient with puerperal mania.
All puerperal insanities should be treated in sanatoria or asylums and not at home.
Puerperal sepsis, either general or local, is a common effect of these bacterial diseases.
When a woman with puerperal insanity is allowed to remain at home she cannot get proper treatment, and is a constant menace to her own life and the lives of her family.
Hey refers to two cases of synochus occurring in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, in women who had attended upon puerperal patients.
Meigs may have been the medium of transfer of puerperal fever in some of the cases he has briefly catalogued.
Contagious Effects of Puerperal Fever on the Male Subject; or on Persons not Child-bearing.
In its very statement of the doctrine maintained it avoids all discussion of the nature of the disease "known as puerperal fever," and all the somewhat stale philology of the word contagion.
In sixteen hours she was attacked with the symptoms of puerperal fever, and narrowly escaped with her life.
Mr. Ceeley's Account of the Puerperal Fever at Aylesbury.
In the winter of 1817 two of my patients had puerperal fever, one very badly, the other not so badly.
No case of puerperalfever occurred afterwards, neither had any of the neighboring surgeons any cases of this disease.
That the discharges from a patient under puerperal fever are in the highest degree contagious we have abundant evidence in the history of lying-in hospitals.
I need not refer to the case lately read before this Society, in which a physician went, soon after performing an autopsy of a case of puerperal fever, to a woman in labor, who was seized with the same disease and perished.
Campbell of Edinburgh states that in October, 1821, he assisted at the post-mortem examination of a patient who died with puerperal fever.
Each Annual Report furnishes the number of births and the number of deaths frompuerperal sepsis.
Puerperal fever occurred in epidemics, following certain physicians and nurses, but nothing was known as to its causes or nature.
To-day puerperal fever is almost unknown in the hospitals or in the practice of a skilled physician.
Armstrong rightly observed, that inflammation is not an essential constituent of typhus; and the same holds good in the strictest sense of the word, with the typhoid or adynamic puerperal fever.
The connexion between the phlegmatia dolens of lying-in women and puerperal fever has been demonstrated even still more closely by Dr.
Kirkland is one of the earliest authors who has shown that puerperal fever is not the result of inflammation, but that it may be produced by the introduction of an animal poison into the circulation.
Therefore Semmelweis said, "Not only can the particles from dead bodies generate puerperal fever, but any decomposed material from the living body can also generate it, and so can air contaminated by such materials.
In May 1850, Semmelweis opened a great debate on puerperal fever, which occupied three sittings of the Vienna Medical Society.
He says, "My friend's fatal symptoms unveiled to my mind an identity with those which I had so often noticed at the deathbeds of puerperal cases.
In October of that year, a woman was admitted who had malignant disease; of twelve women examined after her, eleven got puerperal fever, and died.
They brought about a vague distrust of his figures and his facts; they got people to believe that there must be "something else" in puerperal fever, as well as the local infection.
But what of Semmelweis, and his study of puerperal fever?
Out of 68 cases of puerperal disease seen in consultation, no less than 37 were distinctly traceable to the scarlatinal poison.
Puerperal mania resulted in one case cited, from the use of a moderate amount of wine at mealtimes; when the wine was abandoned the mania subsided.
Indeed, prolonged vexation from these and other causes not unfrequently tend to puerperal mania (a disease of which we shall shortly have something to say), or to some other nervous affection.
Cleanliness is the first requisite to antisepsis, and this is the secret of avoiding puerperal fever.
Ferguson, "I have seen two other states of the limb, which are connected with and traceable to the cause originating puerperal fever.
Nor must we omit to note, in connexion with this subject, the fact of the mucous membrane of the vagina being occasionally found of a dark purple colour in those who die of puerperal affections.
Legallois has expressed his conviction, that phlegmasia dolens, puerperal fever, and many other puerperal ailments, are solely dependent upon the absorption of pus from the uterine surface.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puerperal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
