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This is Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician born in 1818 and active at the Vienna General Hospital. If Dr. Semmelweis looks troubled it's probably because he's thinking about childbed fever: A ...

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Childbed fever was a devastating disease which affected women within the first three days after childbirth. The cause was not understood until Dr Alexander Gordon (1752–1799), one of the shining ...

In 1847, the Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis made a breakthough discovery: he discovers handwashing. Contaminated hands was a major cause of childbed fever and by enforcing handwashing at his ...

At that time, Childbed fever was causing an array of maternal deaths in Europe. This dates back to the mid-nineteenth century, when child births took place at home, with high risk of infections.

states matter of factly that she had “delivered and brought in childbed a Prince,” while Katherine of Aragon signed a letter to Henry VIII, “your humble wife and true servant.” The size ...

Zichgi is a roman term that finds extensive usage in various sentences and different contexts. In English, the zichgi is referred to as "Childbed" and it is driven by the English language. This page ...

In the 19th century, it was common for women to die from an illness contracted during or after childbirth, known as childbed fever. While working at an obstetric department in Vienna, Austria ...

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