This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... but have only slight, if any, pathogenic properties. The surgeon also dreads the bacteria which cause erysipelas. This plant is supposed to be the same that produces puerperal fever in women recently confined. And just here let me tell you what antisepsis has done to prevent the spreading of this disease. Previous to our present knowledge of bacteriology and the precautions which may be employed to counteract the baneful influences of bacteria, it was not an uncommon thing for the obstetrician to have case following case of puerperal fever, not knowing that he was carrying underneath his finger-nails the seeds of the disease, from one patient to another, and planting them under conditions where they were almost sure to grow and produce the dreadful disease. Now, no sane or intelligent obstetrician would think of making a digital examination, in his or her practice, without first thoroughly disinfecting the hands, and when he uses instruments he is as careful of them. Formerly, in dental practice, before germs and germicides were thoroughly understood, broaches were passed through roots of teeth containing infected matter, into the peridental membrane beyond the apical foramen, or broaches not having been first rendered antiseptic were passed through aseptic roots of teeth and the tissues beyond infected with pyogenic organisms, and, as a result, the seeds of an alveolar abscess probably planted. At present, before attempting to reach the end of a root containing infectious material, we apply an antiseptic and first destroy the microbes and the poisons formed by them, then with an aseptic broach we may go to the end of the root with no fear of causing an inflammation. While the mouth is peculiarly adapted to the growth and multiplication of microbes, and many var...
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