On metria : and on the dual clinical characteristics of metrial blood-poisoning / by John Thorburn.

  • Thorburn, John, 1834-1885.
Date:
1881
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Credit: On metria : and on the dual clinical characteristics of metrial blood-poisoning / by John Thorburn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    worthy conclusions. They are as involved as a description of puerperal fevers a few years ago, and that is saying not a little to their discredit. It is the fashion nowadays, I believe, to introduce drainage tubes into every wound larger than a leech-bite, and the growth of the practice is suggestive. It seems to say, “ Run off as much of the poisonous fluids as you can, nature will eliminate the residuum.” And this is acted on and practically approved, alike by those who are careful to apply the usual antiseptic antidotes or preventives of living germs, and by those who are not. I leave the matter in the hands of my surgical friends. You have the inflammatory results of traumatic injuries to deal with, as we have, and to a much greater extent. You have the occasional interference of zymotic contagia, though hardly in such dangerous and insidious form. You have embolic pyaemia just as we have, and you have also what is termed septic poisoning. I am curious to know whether you equally meet with or recognise two distinct forms of this in ordinary practice—a form which you can wash away as you could remove an improper medicated lotion—and a form which is as ineradicable as a vaccine inoculation. Circumstances may render a dual practice less often necessary in your case than in ours, but the principles of action should be the same. A. Ireland & Co., Printers, Pall Mall, Manchester.
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