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Pages: 420
Authors: Sir William Japp Sinclair
Categories: Medicine
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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
Childbed Fever
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Pages: 142
Authors: K. Codell Carter
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-05-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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In the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of women died each year from childbed fever. The Carters describe birthing conditions and medical practices in Vien
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries)
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Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-11-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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The "riveting" (Houston Chronicle), "captivating" (Discover), and "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle) story of the discovery that handwashing help
Genius Belabored
Language: en
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Authors: Theodore G. Obenchain
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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