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Childbed Fever
Language: en
Pages: 142
Authors: K. Codell Carter
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-12 - Publisher: Routledge

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The life and work of Ignaz Semmelweis is among the most engaging and moving stories in the history of science. Childbed Fever makes the Semmelweis story availab
The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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Semmelweis's exposure to the childbed fever was concurrent with his appointment to the Vienna maternity hospital in 1846. Like many similar hospitals and clinic
The Tragedy of Childbed Fever
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Irvine Loudon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

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Childbed fever was by the far the most common cause of deaths associated with childbirth up to the Second World War throughout Britain and Europe. Otherwise kno
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries)
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Pages: 203
Authors: Sherwin B. Nuland
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-11-09 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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A narrative of one of the key turning points in medical history.
Genius Belabored
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Theodore G. Obenchain
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-20 - Publisher: University of Alabama Press

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The fascinating story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a nineteenth-century obstetrician ostracized for his strident advocacy of disinfection as a way to prevent childbed f