Remarks on puerperal fever : before the New York Academy of Medicine, October 6, 1858 / by Fordyce Barker and A.K. Gardner.

  • Barker, Fordyce, 1819-1891.
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1858
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Credit: Remarks on puerperal fever : before the New York Academy of Medicine, October 6, 1858 / by Fordyce Barker and A.K. Gardner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REMARKS BY DR. BARKER. ' regular meeting of this body was held October 1th, the Presi- ,, Dr. Yalentine Mott, in the Chair. A continuation of the dis- ton on Puerperal Fever having been made, by previous vote of the i;lemy, the special order of this meeting, a large concourse of the ))ws was brought together. • •of. Barker, being called upon by the President to continue the -ssion, rose and said : f3. President : I should feel some hesitation in offering a few rrks on puerperal fever, after the subject has been discussed for evenings, by gentlemen whose character, position, and experi- ' carry with their expression of opinion the greatest weight and )i)rity, were it not for the importance and difficulty of the subject, jpposite opinions which have been entertained by distinguished iitioners in regard to it, its liability to occur in the practice of physician, and its terrible fatality. It is a disease which can- >oe investigated by the study of a few sporadic cases, or of a •■ epidemic, or of different epidemics in the same locality, eer is it a disease to be studied in the dead-house, for valuable !5 the researches which have been made into the minute anat- M this affection, important as it is, for the complete elucidation !j subject, that everything should be known as to the autopsic S3 which are to be found ; yet their variety in different epidem- *e absence of everything like constancy or uniformity in these sic lesions, the frequent want of everything like correspondence een the severity of the symptoms during life, and the amount of Drbid appearances found after death, prove, as I think, that these ■■ should be regarded as results of the disease, but not as the