Vaccine therapy in surgery

Abstract

In the pre-antiseptic period, severe complications after the intervention of the surgeon, complications of the early acquired purulent processes were a real scourge for patients. Erysipelas was so common that the appearance of it was considered the norm. There was a huge mortality rate in hospitals. So, on the way to Crimea, to the Sevastopol company, I.I. Pirogov, when examining the wounded, found up to 200 people. with amputation of the thigh. Of these, as it turned out later, only 24 people survived. The rest died from complications of the wound.

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