Treatise on puerperal peritonitis / Tr. from the French by G. S. Bedford.

  • Baudelocque, A. C. (Auguste César), 1795-1851.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Treatise on puerperal peritonitis / Tr. from the French by G. S. Bedford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    nected with the treatment of puerperal peritonitis : we allude to opiates given internally or employed locally, and refrigerants applied to the abdomen. This omission, or rather this negli- gence in not mentioning the cases requiring this medication, is certainly a fault, particularly in a man who has given us such repeated proofs of the most rigid precision. The analysis of this memoir has been the more easy for us, as so far we have been engaged only in bestowing our just eulogies upon it. However, we must be permitted to remark that, in all that regards the treatment of peritonitis, the author is more intent on appreciating the practice of others than the results of his own experience. Although it would be difficult to surpass this excel- lent memoir, we nevertheless regret that he has not presented us with a greater number of clinical facts. They would have tend- ed to fortify his opinions, certainly very judicious, with regard to the propriety of the different modes of treatment, recommended in puerperal peritonitis. Your committee propose, gentlemen, to divide the prize be- tween the authors of Nos. 4 and 2 ; to present to the first a medal of the value of two hundred francs, and one of a hundred franks to the second. Signed Dupost, Duply, Anthony, Bourges, and Burguet, rapporteur. In the programme to the prizes is the following pa- ragraph : The Memoir No. 4 has for its epigraph these words, taken from Boerrhaave : Qui medicinae, &c. This excellent work exhibits developments which we may regard as complete in re- ference to the etiology of puerperal peritonitis. The remaining parts of the subject are equally well 'exposed. We would have