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, 1846.  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 Puerperal Fever, and their Intimate Pathological Connection. (From Monthly Journal of Med.  Sc.) Am.  Jour.  Med.  Sc., July, 1850.

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

Arneth.—­Paper read before the National Academy of Medicine.  Annales d’Hygiene, Tome LXV. 2e Partie. ("Means of Disinfection proposed by M. Semmelweis.”  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.  Sc. 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.  Dr. Simpson attended the dissection of two of Dr. Sidey’s cases, and freely handled the diseased parts.  His next four child-bed patients were affected with puerperal fever, and it was the first time he had seen it in practice.  As Dr. Simpson is a gentleman (Dr. Meigs, as above), and as “a gentleman’s hands are clean” (Dr. Meigs’ sixth letter), it follows that a gentleman with clean hands may carry the disease.  Am.  Jour.  Med.  Sc., October, 1851.

Peddie.—­The five or six cases of Dr. Sidey, followed by the four of Dr. Simpson, did not end the series.  A practitioner in Leith having examined in Dr. Simpson’s house, a portion of the uterus obtained from one of the patients, had immediately afterwards three fatal cases of puerperal fever.  Dr. Peddie referred to two distinct series of consecutive cases in his own practice.  He had since taken precautions, and not met with any such cases.  Am.  Jour.  Med October, 1851.