puerperal disorders

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puerperal disorders

The doctors' plague

germs, childbed fever, and the strange story of Ign?c Semmelweis
2003
Chronicles nineteenth-century Hungarian doctor Ign?c Semmelweis's discovery that physicians must wash their hands to prevent infection of patients, and his losing struggle with the ingrained medical establishment to make it change its practices.
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