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Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis (Contributions in Medical Studies)
Childbed Fever A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis - Contributions in Medical Studies
Author: K. Codell Carter, Barbara R. Carter
In the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of women died each year from childbed fever. The Carters describe birthing conditions and medical practices in Vienna during the time when young Semmelweis began to work in a maternity clinic there. He discovered that childbed fever arose because medical personnel did not wash adequately after dissect...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780313291463
ISBN-10: 0313291462
Publication Date: 5/30/1994
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Greenwood Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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