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Protection against peritonitis and postoperative adhesions from the use of a preparation of amniotic fluid, frequently referred to as amniotic fluid concentrate, comes from its stimulating effect on the normal processes of defense and repair. It is not a germicide and does not of itself dissolve adhesions...
...baby floats in that liquid until it is born. Just before birth, the "bag of water" bursts, and the fluid cascades forth...
That amniotic fluid might have another use gradually dawned on surgeons, when they realized that women who underwent caesarean sections seldom developed peritonitis. That was because amniotic fluid is a potent germicide. When an obstetrician opens the belly to lift out the child, the protective waters flood all the neighborhood of the womb...
Again and again Dr. Johnson flushed the abdominal cavities of his surgical patients with fresh bovine fluid. In an astonishing number of cases peritonitis was prevented and mortality records were brought down to an enviable degree...
...Johnson's Boston colleague and good friend, Dr. Edward Lorraine Young Jr., then suggested that Dr. Johnson give him some concentrated amniotic fluid to try as a prophylactic. In risky bowel operations where the mortality rate is usually about 30% Dr. Young had the satisfaction of reducing it to about 2%. These Johnson-Young experiments went successfully forward to the point where the two doctors last week felt warranted in making this significant announcement to their fellow surgeons: Three ounces of the concentrate injected into the peritoneum four to six hours before an operation will, in a vast majority...