Presidential address on the relation of gynaecology to surgery : delivered before the British Gynaecological Society, Thursday February 11, 1897 / by A.W. Mayo Robson.

  • Robson, A. W. Mayo (Arthur William Mayo), Sir, 1853-1933.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Presidential address on the relation of gynaecology to surgery : delivered before the British Gynaecological Society, Thursday February 11, 1897 / by A.W. Mayo Robson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    111 the Brilish Medical Journal for January 2 of this year is a short paper by Dr. Law, of Sidcup, on a case of acute septic general peritonitis with septic metritis, treated successfully by antitoxic serum injections, which is well worthy of study, as is also the paper by Dr. Moor- iiead, of the Cootehill Union Infirmary, in the British Medical Journal for January 23, 1897, on the use of the same agent in a case of acute puerperal septicaemia. These, along with other reported cases, show that tiie use of the antistreptococcus serum is a most potent remedy which the surgeon or obstetrician should not lose sight of in some of the desperate cases which at times come under his care. There are many other matters in our special branch of work which require elucidation, many methods which require modification, many practices which require amend- ment, and some extreme views which require tempering. We have in our Society no lack of brains and no little enthusiasm, and as we possess a vast amount of experi- ence of every branch of our art I feel sure that we have it within our power, as I know it is our intention, to do much valuable work, and work of such stability that it must disarm all hostile criticism, and give our Society a place in the first ranks of science.
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