TO THE LEARNING ABOUT SELF-INFECTION OF THE MOTHERS IN LABOR

Various kinds of diseases, known under the common name of childbirth fever, are caused by the penetration of pathogenic microbes into the genitals during childbirth, the postpartum period, and even sometimes during pregnancy. The main place of introduction of microbes is the inner wounded surface of the uterus, and then all sorts of superficial and deep damage to the genital canal, due to the most generic act. In view of this, according to the existing view, especially in Germany, the diseases that now occupy us are the essence of infectious diseases of wounds emanating from the genital area. According to the influence of microbes, the course and partly the influence of therapeutic measures, postpartum diseases are divided into: 1) septic diseases in the broad sense of the word, caused by the introduction of pathogenic microbes into living tissue and 2) putrefactive poisoning, which occurs from the blood metabolism of micronutrients in the beginning - Saprämia (Duncan), There are pure cases of both forms; but much more often it is difficult to separate one form from another. —The method of infection that complicates ordinary wounds is not thought at all, being content only with the definition of it, in full conviction that it, as it were not transmitted to the wound, always occurs from the outside. In obstetrics, in relation to the way of infection, the case seems to be more complicated and confusing; as there is a special type of infection known as "self-infection"