Central nervous system damage in puerperal sepsis

Despite the success of asepsis, the clinic gives us more and more cases of sepsis-postpartum and after miscarriage. Its percentage has continued to grow in recent years, and several factors have contributed to its growth. First of all, in spite of the progress of medicine in general, the situation of obstetrical care in our country, unfortunately, has hardly improved recently, especially in the countryside. On the other hand, the experience must have had such an impact on the organism, that it is reasonable to suppose that mankind is now better able to cope with septic infection than, for instance, in pre-war times. Finally, there is another factor contributing to the increase in the number of septicaemias: the artificial termination of pregnancy, which has become much more frequent in recent times and is especially dangerous in the hands of ignorant healers and midwives.