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Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis - Contributions in Medical Studies K. Codell Carter
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Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis - Contributions in Medical Studies
K. Codell Carter
In the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of women died each year from childbed fever. He discovered that childbed fever arose because medical personnel did not wash adequately after dissecting corpses before doing vaginal examinations of women in labor.
159 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 30, 1994 |
| ISBN13 | 9780313291463 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Pages | 159 |
| Dimensions | 144 × 217 × 15 mm · 280 g |
| Language | English |
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