PUERPERAL FEVER 267 



Robert Storrs. Contagious Effects of Puerperal Fever on the 

 Male Subject; or on Persons not Child-bearing. (From Provincial 

 Med. and Surg. Journal.) Am. Jour. Med. Sc., January, 1846 

 Numerous cases. See also Dr. Reid's case in same journal fo: 

 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 Intimate Patho- 

 logical 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 Academy of Medicine. 

 Annales d'Hygiene, Tome LXV. ae Partie. (Means of Disinfection 

 proposed by M. " Semmeliveis." Semmelweiss.) Lotions of chlo- 

 ride of lime and use of nail-brush before admission to lying-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, mentioned above. 



Moir. Remarks at a meeting of the Edinburgh Medico-chirurgical 

 Society. Refers to cases of Dr. Kellie, of Leith. Sixteen in suc- 

 cession, all fatal. Also to several instances of individual pupils hav- 

 ing had a succession of cases in various quarters of the town, while 

 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.) 



Simpson. Observations at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical 

 Society. (An " eminent gentleman," according to Dr. Meigs, 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 of many of the facts, and the 

 necessary inferences, relating to 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 time he had 

 seen it in practice. As Dr. Simpson is a gentleman (Dr. Meigs, as 

 above), and as " a gentleman's hands are clean" (Dr. Meigs' 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 Sc., 

 October, 1851. 



