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A collection of printed materials on the discovery of the causes of childbed fever and elaborating aseptic prevention against it by Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis between 1847-1861. Semmelweis proved that puerperal fever having led earlier to particularly high mortality rates can be fully prevented.
Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever ( German: Die Ätiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers) is a pioneering medical book written by Ignaz Semmelweis and published in 1861, which explains how hygiene in hospitals can drastically reduce unnecessary deaths.
In a textbook, Carl Braun, Semmelweis's successor as assistant in the first clinic, identified 30 causes of childbed fever; only the 28th of these was cadaverous infection. Other supposed causes included conception and pregnancy, uremia, pressure exerted on adjacent organs by the shrinking uterus, emotional traumata, mistakes in diet, chilling ...
Yearly puerperal fever mortality rates 1784–1849 in Wien and Dublin. Semmelweis seeks to demonstrate that the advent of pathological anatomy in Wien in 1823 is correlated to the incidence of childbed fever. See section below for data for Dublin.
21 mai 2020 · In nineteenth century Europe, puerperal fever (childbed fever) was a major clinical and public health problem with very high maternal mortality. It was thought to be caused by miasma, epidemicity, or the Will of Providence. Apart from bloodletting, there was no cure for it. Semmelweis cared for the childbed fever women during their ...
- Uvi Tyagi, Kailash Chander Barwal
- 10.1007/s12262-020-02386-6
- 2020
- Indian J Surg. 2020 Jun; 82(3): 276-277.
Despite all the adversities he faced, Semmelweis was able to reduce the maternal mortality from childbed fever to 0.39% during his first year as Professor, and this rate remained at 0.9% during 1859 to 1860, the last year before the clinic was moved to a new facility.
1 mars 2013 · Ignaz Semmelweis ( Figure 1) was the first physician in medical history who demonstrated that puerperal fever (also known as “childbed fever”) was contagious and that its incidence could be drastically reduced by enforcing appropriate hand washing by medical care-givers ( 3 ).
