On Hospitalism and the Causes of Death After Operations (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from On Hospitalism and the Causes of Death After Operations

Conclusions from last Lecture - Causes of Death fourfold - Shock and Septic Diseases differently felt in dififerent Operations Septic Diseases more frequent in some than in others - Influence of Shock - Influence of Septic Diseases - Hospitalism - Meaning of Term Septic Disease in Hospital and Private Practice - Author's Expe rience - Influence on Mortality: 1. Of Maternity Charities - Leibrt's Statistics; 2. Of Ovariotomy - Spencer Wells' Views; 3. Of Am putations in Active War - franco-german War - Difference between Rate of Mortality in Huts and in Hospitals - Simpson's Statistics Three Conditions may influence result independently of Hospitalism.

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Excerpt from On Hospitalism and the Causes of Death After Operations

There are few subjects in surgery of greater interest, and certainly there is none of greater importance, than that which relates to the cause of death after an operation, more especially when that operation is one that does not necessarily affect a vital part; for on its consideration necessarily depends the success, in its ultimate issue, of any operative procedure that we may undertake. On reviewing the recent progress and present state of surgery in reference to this grave question, I think that we arc justified in coming to the following conclusions:-

1. That surgery, in its mechanical and manipulative processes, in its Art, in fact, is approaching, if it has not already attained to, something like finality of perfection.

2. That the Science of surgery has not advanced proportionately with the Art.

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