The American Medical Journal, 1889

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Medical Journal, 1889: Of St. Louis, Mo As I said above, if anything has transpired to lower the vital forces of our patient - such as meteorological conditions; improper care during pregnancy; long and tedious labor; unfavorable sur roundings; or too frequent child-bearing - the patient will be put in a favorable condition for an attack. There are degrees of viru lence; it may be due to the amount of absorption, and it may be due to difference in the degree of toxic effect of the sepsin; then, again, the susceptibility of the patient may have something to do with it. This is true within my experience - that those cases that have been neglected beyond a certain time will be so overwhelmed by the septic absorption that the best treatment will fail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.