Prophylactic Antibiotics

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IN the spring of 1959 Dr. J. J. Morton, a distinguished surgeon and teacher, emeritus professor at the University of Rochester, reviewed the problem of surgical sepsis in his Samuel Clark Harvey Lecture at Yale.1 In concluding he stated, "The struggle against sepsis is still with us. It has been a long and hard struggle with successes and disappointments. It has been a struggle between bacteria and human resistance ... We may yet resolve it." He might have mentioned another and often crucial struggle — that of the micro-organisms against the chemical and biological agents devised by man to eradicate . . .

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