Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: The History of America
Author: William RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Works of William Robertson, D. D...
Author: William RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Brutus: Vindiciae, Contra Tyrannos
Author: Hubert LanguetPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521349871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A complete translation and detailed edition of an influential treatise.
The Tragedy of Childbed Fever
Author: Irvine LoudonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191542288
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Childbed fever was by the far the most common cause of deaths associated with childbirth up to the Second World War throughout Britain and Europe. Otherwise known as puerperal fever, it was an infection which followed childbirth and caused thousands of miserable and agonising deaths every year. This book provides the first comprehensive account of this tragic disease from its recognition in the eighteenth century up to the second half of the twentieth century. Examining this within a broad history of infective diseases, the author goes on to explore ideas from past debates about the nature of infectious diseases and contagion, the discovery of bacteria and antisepsis, and charts the complicated path which led to the discovery of antibiotics. The large majority of deaths from puerperal fever were due to one micro-organism known as Streptococcus pyogenes, and the last chapter presents valuable new ideas on the nature and epidemiology of streptococcal disease up to the present day.
The History of the Discovery and Settlement of America
Author: William RobertsonPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The History of Scotland
Author: William RobertsonThe Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever
Author: Ignác Fülöp SemmelweisPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299093648
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
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.