Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers

by Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis

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First edition

Pest, Vienna, & Leipzig: C.A. Hartleben, 1861. First edition of Semmelweis’s great and fiercely argued treatise on puerperal childbed fever, the fullest statement of his mid-century campaign to make maternity wards safe. Drawing on the Vienna clinics and extensive mortality tables, he rejected vague “epidemic” or miasmatic explanations and instead identified the disease as largely iatrogenic—carried from

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