The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Volume 39

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W.A. Townsend & Adams, 1899

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Page 767 - ... 2. The discrepancy in the results of the various investigators is due to the technique by which the secretion is obtained. 3. As the vagina does not contain pyogenic cocci, autoinfection with them is impossible ; and when they are found in the puerperal uterus, they have been introduced from without. 4. The gonococcus is occasionally found in the vaginal secretion, and during the puerperium may extend from the cervix into...
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