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The Germ‐Content of the Uterus and Vagina during the Normal Puerperium. *
Author(s) -
Brownlee James
Publication year - 1905
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1905.tb15638.x
Subject(s) - uterus , vagina , gynecology , obstetrics , medicine , andrology , anatomy
The study of the bacteriology of the genital passages may be said to have begun in 1887, with the publication of Gonner's .article (1), in which he came to the conclusion that autoinfection of the parturient woman is impossible, and that puerperal septic troubles must be attributed to imperfect asepsis on the part of the lying-in woman's attendant, medical or otherwise. Since then obstetricians have been divided into two camps, the one party upholding the views just mentioned, and hence .advocating the strictly aseptic conduct of labour, the other declaring that auto-infection is possible, and that in conducting