childbed fever

But this was only one of many possible causes for childbed fever.

He turned every conversation to the topic of childbed fever.

Women could die giving birth, or of childbed fever afterwards.

In maternity clinics this would have been called childbed fever.

His wife died of childbed fever a few weeks after the birth of their only child.

From the 1600s through the mid to late 1800s, the majority of childbed fever cases were caused by the doctors themselves.

Before the end of the nineteenth century, women often died of "childbed fever."

In this way they become carriers of the decaying matter responsible for childbed fever.

In fact, aside from the childbed fever, I had not been ill once since my passage through the stone circle.

The child had come too soon; AnnaMara died of childbed fever.

He wished to show that childbed fever was related to pathological anatomy.

He was encouraged by Braun to study airborne organisms as the source of childbed fever.

Deety, do you want to die from childbed fever?"

But her hands bring out living babies, and there's been no childbed fever since she's been here."

Infant mortality was highest during the crucial first days, when the mother might also succumb to childbed fever.

There is a remedy she uses fer childbed fevers.

Used by Semmelweis, as "chlorinated lime", in his revolutionary efforts against childbed fever.

Thus, Semmelweis concluded some unknown "cadaverous material" caused childbed fever.

We have learned to prevent childbed fever, yet are no closer to alleviating the terrifying symptoms of schizophrenia.

Ignaz Semmelweis, who studied and decreased the incidence of childbed fever.

The cause was invariably childbed fever.

The prevailing opinion is that winter is the season most conducive to outbreaks of childbed fever.

Thus, before chlorine washings, almost every patient whose period dilation was extended died of childbed fever."

However after landing in Buenos Aires his wife came down with childbed fever on the trip across country, and he decided against continuing.

His investigation discovered that washing hands with an antiseptic solution before a delivery reduced childbed fever fatalities by 90%.