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Puerperal Infection: A General Review
Abstract: The Puerperal infection includes all abnormal conditions resulting from the entrance of organisms into the genital tract during labour or the puerperium. Puerperal infection has been recognized for many hundreds of years, and was mentioned by both Hippocrates and Galen in their works. Later, in the seventeenth century, Willis, in England, wrote a treatise on the subject as it occurred at that time. About the middle of the nineteenth century …
Published in Research and Reviews : Journal of Surgery · Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2021 · pp. 32–38 Read article