Accidentally, without anybody’s fault at all, that infected room was used for a confinement case before the first patient had been out of it five days. So I came to the conclusion that in this disease we have one that is contagious in the highest degree; that the disease can be contracted through the larynx, stomach or any other organ, and that it is almost impossible for a physician in attendance upon such a case to rid himself of the poison while thus coming from other cases.
DR. DINSMORE: Dr. Grosvenor did not mention-at least I did not hear him mention-Veratrum viride. Some regard this drug as the remedy to control the high degree of fever. I will just say, in regard to puerperal fever, that I was unfortunate enough, as a few years ago, to have five such cases inside of ten days, and that after that siege was over I did not attend any more for a long time. After that I did not see a case that I thought was carried directly by the physician.
DR. YEOMANS: I have had quite a number of cases of puerperal eclampsia, and I just want to say that I have had excellent results with Hyoscyamine, and when I hear this subject spoken of, that remedy always comes to my mind, and I find it an almost invaluable medicine.
DR. GROSVENOR: In a Homoeopathic convention from all the United States and Canada and the West, it seems like a work of supererogation to speak of remedies, and I only alluded to the prophylactic management.
DR. YOUNGMAN: Mr. Chairman, in closing the paper, I can only answer Dr. Yeomans, of Iowa. I think the case she refers to as occurring three or four times, was one of those that I speak of. I don’t believe much in puerperal insanity. I think it is insanity incurred form some other cause, or some excitement, or from a predisposing cause.
