[Clinical characteristics of sepsis today].

Two sources of septic toxemia--microbial and metabolic--were found in a detailed analysis of 37 patients with pronounced symptoms of sepsis. The proposed three-degrees classification of septic toxemia based upon the degree of clinical signs and humoral reactions, gives sufficient information, partically useful for a more objective estimation of the patients' state, to choose a purposeful therapy of sepsis and real ideas of the prognosis. In addition to the active antimicrobial therapy with using powerful antiseptics (sulfamilon, chlorophilipt, gentamycin, ceporin etc.

[New features in the course and outcome of treatment of lactation mastitis].

An analysis of the outcomes of the treatment of 150 patients with lactational mastitis has warranted the conclusion on a secondary origin of the disease in many cases. Not infrequently lactational mastitis occurred as a result of a pathological delivery and hospitalism, in 8% of patients lactational mastitis being nothing but a local manifestation of a general purulent infection--sepsis. In the most of patients a radical dissection of the abscess has proved to be an effective and sufficient therapeutic method.