The Etiology Concept And Prophylaxis Of Childbed Fever
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The Etiology Concept And Prophylaxis Of Childbed Fever
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Author : Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1983
The Etiology Concept And Prophylaxis Of Childbed Fever written by Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Medical categories.
Semmelweis's exposure to the childbed fever was concurrent with his appointment to the Vienna maternity hospital in 1846. Like many similar hospitals and clinics in the major cities of nineteenth-century Europe and America, where death rates from the illness sometimes climbed as high as 40 percent of admitted patients, the Viennese wards were ravaged by the fever. Intensely troubled by the tragic and baffling loss of so many young mothers, Semmelweis sought answers. The Etiology was testimony to his success. Based on overwhelming personal evidence, it constituted a classic description of a disease, its causes, and its prevention. It also allowed a necessary response to the obstetrician's already vocal, rabid, and perhaps predictable critics. For Semmelweis's central thesis was a startling one - the fever, he correctly surmised, was caused not by epidemic or endemic influences but by unsterilized and thus often contaminated hands of the attending physicians themselves.
Two Open Letters Of I Semmelweis
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Author : Ignaz Semmelweis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Two Open Letters Of I Semmelweis written by Ignaz Semmelweis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
The Cause Concept And Prophylaxis Of Childbed Fever
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Author : Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
The Cause Concept And Prophylaxis Of Childbed Fever written by Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Children categories.
The Etiology The Concept And The Prophylaxis Of Childbed Fever
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Author : Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The Etiology The Concept And The Prophylaxis Of Childbed Fever written by Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Asepsis and antisepsis categories.
The Etiology The Concept And The Prophylaxis Of Childbed Fever
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Author : Ignac Fülöp Semmelweis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The Etiology The Concept And The Prophylaxis Of Childbed Fever written by Ignac Fülöp Semmelweis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with categories.
The Etiology The Concept And The Prophylaxis Of Childbed Fever
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Author : Ignatz Philipp Semmelewis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
The Etiology The Concept And The Prophylaxis Of Childbed Fever written by Ignatz Philipp Semmelewis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with categories.
The Etiology The Concept And The Prophylaxis Of Childbed Fever Together With The Open Letters
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
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Childbed Fever
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Author : K. Codell Carter
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1994-05-30
Childbed Fever written by K. Codell Carter and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-05-30 with Health & Fitness categories.
In the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of women died each year from childbed fever. The Carters describe birthing conditions and medical practices in Vienna during the time when young Semmelweis began to work in a maternity clinic there. He discovered that childbed fever arose because medical personnel did not wash adequately after dissecting corpses before doing vaginal examinations of women in labor. After he required students to disinfect themselves, the mortality rate immediately dropped. However, Semmelweis's views were not accepted by the senior physicians who believed the disease was due to a variety of causes. After strident attempts to persuade skeptics, Semmelweis was committed to a Viennese insane asylum where he died at age 42, possibly from beatings by asylum guards. Childbed fever, now called puerperal infection, continues to be a leading cause of maternal mortality, in spite of the best efforts of modern physicians.
Genius Belabored
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Author : Theodore G. Obenchain
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2016-09-20
Genius Belabored written by Theodore G. Obenchain and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The fascinating story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a nineteenth-century obstetrician ostracized for his strident advocacy of disinfection as a way to prevent childbed fever In Genius Belabored: Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis, Theodore G. Obenchain traces the life story of a nineteenth-century Hungarian obstetrician who was shunned and marginalized by the medical establishment for advancing a far-sighted but unorthodox solution to the appalling mortality rates that plagued new mothers of the day. In engrossing detail, Obenchain recreates for readers the sights, smells, and activities within a hospital of that day. In an era before the acceptance of modern germ science, physicians saw little need for cleanliness or hygiene. As a consequence, antiseptic measures were lax and rudimentary. Especially vulnerable to contamination were new mothers, who frequently contracted and died from childbed fever (puerperal fever). Genius Belabored follows Semmelweis’s awakening to the insight that many of these deaths could be avoided with basic antiseptic measures like hand washing. The medical establishment, intellectually unprepared for Semmelweis’s prescient hypothesis, rejected it for a number of reasons. It was unorthodox and went against the lingering Christian tradition that the dangers of childbirth were inherent to the lives of women. Complicating matters, colleagues did not consider Semmelweis an easy physician to work with. His peers described him as strange and eccentric. Obenchain offers an empathetic and insightful argument that Semmelweis suffered from bipolar disorder and illuminates how his colleagues, however dedicated to empirical science they might have been, misjudged Semmelweis’s methods based upon ignorance and their emotional discomfort with him. In Genius Belabored, Obenchain identifies Semmelweis’s rightful place in the pantheon of scientists and physicians whose discoveries have saved the lives of millions. Obenchain’s biography of Semmelweis offers unique insights into the practice of medicine and the mindsets of physicians working in the premodern era. This fascinating study offers much of interest to general readers as well as those interested in germ theory, the history of medicine and obstetrics, or anyone wishing to better understand the trajectory of modern medicine.
The Doctors Plague Germs Childbed Fever And The Strange Story Of Ignac Semmelweis Great Discoveries
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Author : Sherwin B. Nuland
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2004-11-17
The Doctors Plague Germs Childbed Fever And The Strange Story Of Ignac Semmelweis Great Discoveries written by Sherwin B. Nuland and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Riveting" (Houston Chronicle), "captivating" (Discover), and "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle). Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately—childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared—they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end.