A manual of obstetric practice : for students and practitioners / by A. Dührssen ; translated and edited from the 6th amended and enlarged ed., by John W. Taylor and Frederick Edge.

  • Dührssen, Jacob Alfred, 1862-1933.
Date:
1897
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Credit: A manual of obstetric practice : for students and practitioners / by A. Dührssen ; translated and edited from the 6th amended and enlarged ed., by John W. Taylor and Frederick Edge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    mother, when necessity calls for the intervention, yet I pointed out that these methods are to be used only by the experienced antiseptic obstetrician. He must have a full instrumentarium, and should be specially trained. The introduction of antisepsis into general midwifery practice has not lowered the mortality after obstetric operations, as Hegar and Dohrn have pointed out, although this mortality has been reduced to a minimum in hospital practice. This disparity is explained by two causes, namely, de- fective antisepis and defective technical skill in general practice. For the present, therefore, operative inter- ference should be limited as much as possible, so as to keep the mortality low. An improvement may be ex- pected in the futui'e, because strict antisepis or asepsis— 1 do not mean a pretence at either—will be the common- wealth of all obstetricians, and beginners will perform severe obstetric operations only under the guidance of a practised and strict antiseptic obstetrician. Dr. a. D.UHRSSEN.