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The tragedy of childbed fever /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loudon, Irvine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Puerperal septicemia > History.
Puerperal Infection > history
Sepsis > history
Septicémie puerpérale > Histoire.
MEDICAL > Gynecology & Obstetrics.
Puerperal septicemia
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • An introduction to puerperal fever
  • Puerperal fever in the eighteenth century
  • Gordon of Aberdeen
  • Epidemic puerperal fever in towns
  • Puerperal fever and the lying-in hospitals
  • Puerperal fever : causes and contagion
  • Semmelweis
  • Monocausalists, multicausalists, and germ theory
  • Lister and antisepsis
  • Puerperal fever in the early twentieth century
  • Puerperal fever : a curable disease
  • The epidemiology of puerperal fever.