The etiology, concept, and prophylaxis of childbed fever / Ignaz Semmelweis ; translated and edited, with an introduction, by K. Codell Carter.

In 1859 a Hungarian obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis, reflecting on his years as resident in the Vienna maternity clinic, wrote a graphic account of his attempt to diagnose and eliminate the then epidemic scourge of childbed fever. The resulting Etiology triggered an immediate and international s...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author:	Semmelweis, Ignác Fülöp, 1818-1865
Other Authors:	Carter, K. Codell (Kay Codell), 1939-
Other title:	Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers. English. Childbed fever.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English German
Published:	Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.
Series:	Wisconsin publications in the history of science and medicine ; no. 2.
Subjects:	Puerperal septicemia. Asepsis and antisepsis.