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Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis
Childbed Fever A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis
Author: K. Codell Carter, Barbara 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: 9781412804677
ISBN-10: 1412804671
Publication Date: 2/1/2005
Pages: 143
Edition: Revised
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Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Book Type: Paperback
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