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21childbed fever — noun serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon • Syn: ↑puerperal fever • Hypernyms: ↑blood poisoning, ↑septicemia,… …
22childbedfever — childbed fever n. See puerperal fever. * * * …
23Ignaz Semmelweis — Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, aged 42 in 1860 pen sketch by Jenő Dopy …
24Contemporary reaction to Ignaz Semmelweis — Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis discovered in 1847 that hand washing with a solution of chlorinated lime reduced the incidence of fatal childbed fever tenfold in maternity institutions. However, the reaction of his contemporaries was not positive; his… …
25Puerperal fever — Streptococcus pyogenes (red stained spheres) is responsible for most cases of severe puerperal fever. It is commonly found in the throat and nasopharynx of otherwise healthy carriers, particularly during winter. Details: A pus specimen, viewed… …
26Historical mortality rates of puerperal fever — Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis worked at the Vienna General Hospital s maternity clinic on a 3 year contract from 1846 1849. There, as elsewhere in European and North American hospitals, puerperal fever, or childbed fever, was rampant, sometimes climbing… …
27Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp — ▪ German Hungarian physician GermanHungarian Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis born July 1, 1818, Buda, Hungary, Austrian Empire [now Budapest, Hung.] died August 13, 1865, Vienna, Austria German Hungarian physician who discovered the cause of… …
28Puerperal fever — Fever that lasts for more than 24 hours within the first 10 days after a woman has had a baby. Puerperal fever is due to an infection, most often of the placental site within the uterus. If the infection involves the bloodstream, it constitutes… …
29Jakob Kolletschka — Infobox Scientist name = PAGENAME box width = image size =300px caption = PAGENAME birth date = birth place = death date = |death place = residence = citizenship = nationality = ethnicity = field = Forensic Medicine work institutions = alma mater …
30Carl Braun (obstetrician) — Infobox Scientist name = Carl Braun (obstetrician) box width = image size = 250px caption = Carl Ritter von Fernwald Braun, approx 1880 birth date = 22 March 1822 birth place = Zistersdorf, Niederösterreich, Austria death date = 28 March 1891… …
