Observations on Puerperal Fever and Mortality
Title | Observations on Puerperal Fever and Mortality PDF eBook |
Author | John August Byrne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 1869 |
Genre | Puerperal septicemia |
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Observations on Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Mortality
Title | Observations on Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Mortality PDF eBook |
Author | John August Byrne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 35 |
Release | 1869 |
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The Tragedy of Childbed Fever
Title | The Tragedy of Childbed Fever PDF eBook |
Author | Irvine Loudon |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2000-01-06 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0191542288 |
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 known as puerperal fever, it was an infection which followed childbirth and caused thousands of miserable and agonising deaths every year. This book provides the first comprehensive account of this tragic disease from its recognition in the eighteenth century up to the second half of the twentieth century. Examining this within a broad history of infective diseases, the author goes on to explore ideas from past debates about the nature of infectious diseases and contagion, the discovery of bacteria and antisepsis, and charts the complicated path which led to the discovery of antibiotics. The large majority of deaths from puerperal fever were due to one micro-organism known as Streptococcus pyogenes, and the last chapter presents valuable new ideas on the nature and epidemiology of streptococcal disease up to the present day.
Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence
Title | Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence PDF eBook |
Author | Holmes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1855 |
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Observations on the Disease Usually Termed Puerperal Fever
Title | Observations on the Disease Usually Termed Puerperal Fever PDF eBook |
Author | William Campbell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1822 |
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Puerperal Fever, as a Private Pestilence
Title | Puerperal Fever, as a Private Pestilence PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1855 |
Genre | Puerperal septicemia |
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The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever
Title | The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever PDF eBook |
Author | Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780299093648 |
Semmelweis's exposure to the childbed fever was concurrent with his appointment to the Vienna maternity hospital in 1846. Like many similar hospitals and clinics in the major cities of nineteenth-century Europe and America, where death rates from the illness sometimes climbed as high as 40 percent of admitted patients, the Viennese wards were ravaged by the fever. Intensely troubled by the tragic and baffling loss of so many young mothers, Semmelweis sought answers. The Etiology was testimony to his success. Based on overwhelming personal evidence, it constituted a classic description of a disease, its causes, and its prevention. It also allowed a necessary response to the obstetrician's already vocal, rabid, and perhaps predictable critics. For Semmelweis's central thesis was a startling one - the fever, he correctly surmised, was caused not by epidemic or endemic influences but by unsterilized and thus often contaminated hands of the attending physicians themselves.