Puerperal convalescence and the diseases of the puerperal period / by Joseph Kucher.

  • Kucher, Joseph.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Puerperal convalescence and the diseases of the puerperal period / by Joseph Kucher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    superiority over the others that it could be called the lotion par excellence. This is no great matter, since we know that our success depends less upon the adoption of this or that lotion than upon the exact execution of one or the other of the prophy- lactic procedures which have been found reliable. If we knew all the sources where infecting matter may lurk, and if we could be sure that neither we nor our instruments had come in contact with infect- ing matter, the use of disinfectants would be, of course, unnecessary. We hear often that this or that physician, who never uses any disinfecting lotions, has better results than another who does make use of such lotions. This is obviously no argument against disinfectants ; it shows only that one physician can be free from infecting matter with- out using disinfecting lotions, and that another will not be free when he has exposed himself to infec- tion and his disinfection has not been thorough enough. Who is holy needs no purification. In the long run it will be always found that the best policy is to use in every case, whether we are conscious of having exposed ourselves to infection or not, such measures as have been found efficient for disinfec- tion, and to use them more vigorously when we have exposed ourselves or our utensils to infection. Yery instructive in this regard is H. Fritsch's ex- perience (Path, und Ther. des Wochenb., p. 10). During one of the years of his practice he had to