THE

AMERICAN

JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS

AND

DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN

EDITED BY

BROOKS H. WELLS, M.D.

Professor of Gynecology at the New York Polyclinic and Gynecological Surgeon to
the New York Polyclinic Hospital; Consulting Gynecologist to Beth Israel
Hospital, New York; Consulting Abdominal Surgeon to the Brat-

tleboro Memorial Hospital, Brattleboro. Vermont: Fellow

of the American Gynecological Society, the New York

Academy of Medicine, the New York Obstet-

rical Society, The Society of the

Alumni of the City Hospital.

VOLUME LVI.

JULY-DECEMBER, 1907

NEW YORK

WILLIAM WOOD & COMPANY

1907

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

BALDWIN, JAMES F., Columbus, O.
BALLERAY, G. H., Paterson, N. J.

BOVÉE, J. WESLEY, Washington, D. C.
BUTLER, GEORGE F., Wilmette, Ill.

CANNADAY, JOHN EGERTON, Hansford, W. Va.
CARSTENS, J. H., Detroit, Mich.

CHASE, CARROLL, Brooklyn, N. Y.

CHASE, WALTER B., Brooklyn, N. Y.

CHETWOOD, CHARLES H., New York, N. Y.

DICKINSON, ROBERT L., Brooklyn, N. Y.

EDDY, I. H., Chicago, Ill.

FREDERICK, CARLTON C., Buffalo, N. Y.
GARCEAU, EDGAR, Boston, Mass.
GOFFE, J. RIDDLE, New York, N. Y.
HALL, RUFUS B., Cincinnati, O.
HARGRAVE, EDWARD T., Norfolk, Va.
HAYD, HERMAN E., Buffalo, N. Y.
HOWITT, HENRY, Guelph, Ont.

HUGGINS, RALEIGH R., Pittsburg, Pa.

HUMISTON, WILLIAM M., Cleveland, O.

HURDON, ELIZABETH, Baltimore, Md.

HYDE, CLARENCE REGINALD, New York, N. Y.

ILL, EDWARD J., Newark, N. J.

JACOBSON, ARTHUR C., Brooklyn, N. Y.

JEWETT, CHARLES, Brooklyn, N. Y.

JONAS, ERNST, St. Louis, Mo.

KEEFE, JOHN W., Providence, R. I.

KELLEY, I. THOMAS, Washington, D. C.

LEWIS, F. PARK, Buffalo, N. Y.

LIPPOLD, WILLIAM E., Brooklyn, N. Y.

LONGYEAR, HOWARD W., Detroit, Mich.

LYONS, JOHN A., Chicago, Ill.

MCILWRAITH, KENNEDY C., Toronto, Ont., Can.

MCKAY, W. J., STEWART, Sydney, New South Wales.

MAIER, OTTO, New York, N. Y.

MANN, EDWARD C., Buffalo, N. Y.

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MILLER, G. BROWN, Washington, D. C.
MILLIGAN, JOSEPHINE, Jacksonville, Ill.
MORGAN, JAMES DUDLEY, Washington, D. C.
MORRIS, ROBERT T., New York, N. Y.
NOBLE, CHARLES P., Philadelphia, Pa.
NOBLE, GEORGE H., Atlanta, Ga.
NORRIS, C. C., Philadelphia, Pa.
PANTZER, HUGO O., Indianapolis, Ind.
PARTRIDGE, H. G., Providence, R. I.
PFAFF, ORANGE G., Indianapolis, Ind.
Porter, Miles F., Fort Wayne, Ind.
PRICE, JOSEPH, Philadelphia, Pa.
REBAUDI, STEPHEN, Genoa, Italy.
Rector, JosepH M., Jersey City, N. J.
REDER, FRANCIS, St. Louis, Mo.

ROBB, HUNTER, Cleveland, O.

SADLIER, JAMES E., Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

SELLMAN, W. A. B., Baltimore, Md.

SIMPSON, F. F., Pittsburg, Pa.

SKEEL, R. E., Cleveland, Ohio.

SPRIGG, WILLIAM MERCER, Washington, D. C.

STONE, I. S., Washington, D. C.

SUTTON, JOHN BLAND, London, Eng.

THOMAS, JOHN D., Washington, D. C.

TRACY, STEPHEN E., Philadelphia, Pa.

VANCE, AP MORGAN, Louisville, Ky.

VAUGHAN, GEORGE TULLY, Washington, D. C.

WELLS, BROOKS H., New York, N. Y.

WEST, JAMES N., New York, N. Y.

WIENER, SOLOMON, New York, N. Y.

ZINKE, E. GUSTAV, Cincinnati, O.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS. AMERICAN GYNECOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA,

NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.
NEW YORK OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY.
OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

WASHINGTON OBSTETRICAL AND GYNECOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
WOMAN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY.

AN APPRECIATION OF THE WORK OF DR. HENRY J. GARRIGUES IN INTRODUCING ASEPSIS

INTO OBSTETRIC PRACTISE.*

BY

BROOKS H. WELLS, M.D.,

New York.

Professor of Gynecology at the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital.

Mr. President and Fellows of the American Gynecological Society:

It is with the greatest diffidence and the greatest pleasure that I rise to speak before you to-day. Diffidence because of my unworthiness of the honor and pleasure that I may help to keep bright the laurel that gleams above a brow frosted and seamed by the snows of more than seventy winters.

In order that you may realize how great a thing was done when sepsis was driven by Garrigues from the New York Maternity Hospital in 1883, let me remind you that it is less in measure of years than the years of a strong man's life since Oliver Wendell Holmes, in his immortal essay on puerperal fever, said so bravely: "The time has come when the existence of a private pestilence

*An oration delivered before the American Gynecological Society at Washington, May 8, 1907.