PUERPERAL FEVER
- 27 June 1925
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 84 (26) , 1991-1992
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1925.02660520019008
Abstract
In 1878 Pasteur1cultivated the streptococcus from a case of puerperal infection. Since then it has been shown thatStreptococcus hemolyticusis the cause of the majority of the fatal puerperal infections. Richet and Héricourt,2as early as 1888, suggested the producing of a serum or antibody to combat the staphylococcus infection. Marmorek,3in 1895, put this idea into practice as regards the streptococcus, and he produced a serum that was supposed to have been valuable in all types of streptococcus infection. But the results were discouraging, as the mortality in the patients treated with the serum was higher than in those without serum therapy. Then followed polyvalent serum therapy; the first was prepared by Van de Velde4in 1896. The work of Arohnson, Neufeld and Rimpau,5and Meyer and Ruppeld indicated the necessity of obtaining the strains from various sources of infection in manKeywords
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