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Credé's prophylaxis
Also known as:
Credé's method
Associated persons:
Carl Siegmund Franz Credé
Description:
Prophylactic procedure for treatment of the eyes of the newborn with argentum nitricum (1% silver nitrate). This method is used to protect the children from blenorrhoea neonatarum - the possible danger of an inflammation of the eye during delivery by a mother with a venereal disease. The method was used systematically from 1884.
Bibliography:
- C. S. F. Credé:
Die Verhütung der Augenentzündung der Neugeborenen.
Archiv für Gynäkologie, München, 1881, 17: 50-53.
Die Verhütung der Augenentzündung der Neugeborenen.
Separate, expanded edition, Berlin, A. Hirschwald, 1884.
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