Elkington, of Birmingham, in Provincial Med.  Journal, cited in Am.  Journ.  Med.  Se. for April, 1844.—­Six cases in less than a fortnight, seeming to originate in a case of erysipelas.

West’s Reports, in Brit. and For.  Med.  Review for October, 1845, and January, 1847.—­Affection of the arm, resembling malignant pustule, after removing the placenta of a patient who died from puerperal fever.  Reference to cases at Wurzburg, as proving contagion, and to Keiller’s cases in the Monthly Journal for February, 1846, as showing connection of puerperal fever and erysipelas.

Kneeland.—­Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever.  Am.  Jour.  Med.  Se., January, 1846.  Also, Connection between Puerperal Fever and Epidemic Erysipelas.  Ibid., April, 1846.

Robert Storrs.—­Contagious Effects of Puerperal Fever on the Male Subject; or on Persons not Child-bearing. (From Provincial Med. and Surg.  Journal.) Am.  Jour.  Med.  Sc., January, 184,6.  Numerous cases.  See also Dr. Reid’s case in same Journal for April, 1846.

Routh’s paper in Proc. of Royal Med.  Chir.  Soc., Am.  Jour.  Med.  Sc., April, 1849, also in B. and F. Med.  Chir.  Review, April, 1850.

Hill, of Leuchars.—­A Series of Cases illustrating the Contagious Nature of Erysipelas and of Puerperal Fever, and their Intimate Pathological Connection. (From Monthly Journal of Med.  Sc.) Am.  Jour.  Med.  Se., July, 1850.

Skoda on the Causes of Puerperal Fever. (Peritonitis in rabbits, from inoculation with different morbid secretions.) Am.  Jour.  Med.  Se., October, 1850.

Arneth.  Paper read before the National Academy of Medicine.  Annales d’Hygiene, Tome LXV. 2e Partie. (Means of Disinfection proposed by M.  “Semmeliveis” (Semmelweiss.) Lotions of chloride of lime and use of nail-brush before admission to lying-in wards.  Alleged sudden and great decrease of mortality from puerperal fever.  Cause of disease attributed to inoculation with cadaveric matters.) See also Routh’s paper, mentioned above.

Moir.  Remarks at a meeting of the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society.  Refers to cases of Dr. Kellie, of Leith.  Sixteen in succession, all fatal.  Also to several instances of individual pupils having had a succession of cases in various quarters of the town, while others, practising as extensively in the same localities, had none.  Also to several special cases not mentioned elsewhere.  Am.  Jour.  Med.  Se. for October, 1851. (From New Monthly Journal of Med.  Science.)

Simpson.—­Observations at a Meeting of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society.  (An “eminent gentleman,” according to Dr. Meigs, whose “name is as well known in America as in (his) native land.”  Obstetrics.  Phil. 1852, pp. 368, 375.) The student is referred to this paper for a valuable resume of many of the facts, and the necessary inferences, relating to this subject.  Also for another series of cases, Mr. Sidey’s, five or six in rapid succession.