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Excerpt from On Hospitalism and the Causes of Death After Operations
Conclusions from last Lecture - Causes of Death fourfold - Shock and Septic Diseases differently felt in dififerent Operations Septic Diseases more frequent in some than in others - Influence of Shock - Influence of Septic Diseases - Hospitalism - Meaning of Term Septic Disease in Hospital and Private Practice - Author's Expe rience - Influence on Mortality: 1. Of Maternity Charities - Leibrt's Statistics; 2. Of Ovariotomy - Spencer Wells' Views; 3. Of Am putations in Active War - franco-german War - Difference between Rate of Mortality in Huts and in Hospitals - Simpson's Statistics Three Conditions may influence result independently of Hospitalism.
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