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Of puerperal (childbed) fever caused by Streptococcus haemolyticus more than 3,000 U. S. women die every year. Although sulfanilamide has miraculously cured thousands of puerperal infections, ...

Dr. Josue Beruti, professor of clinical obstetrics in the University of Buenos Aires, in 1947 published in the Revista de la Universidad de Buenos Aires a valuable monograph on the history of ...

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Based on: Charles White of Manchester (1728–1813), and the Arrest of Puerperal Fever. With which are reprinted Charles White's published writings on Puerperal Fever. By George Adami, C.B.E., M.D., F.R ...

Puerperal sepsis, also known as childbed fever, is the leading cause of maternal deaths. In this novel study in The American Journal of Pathology, published by Elsevier, scientists report on the ...

INVESTIGATIONS carried out for the Departmental Committee on Maternal Mortality have shown the importance of strains of the micro-organism known as the haemolytic streptococcus, and of carriers of ...

“IN the history of midwifery there is a dark page, and it is headed Semmelweis.” Semmelweis was a prophet, and he was misunderstood by the people he came to save. The services he rendered mankind ...