Author: John LeakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Childbirth
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Practical Observations on the Child-bed Fever
Author: John LeakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Childbirth
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Practical Observations on the Child-bed Fever, and the Acute Diseases in General, Most Fatal to Women During the State of Pregnancy
Author: Facts, Observations and Practical Illustrations, Relative to Puerperal Fever, Scarlet Fever, Pulmonary Consumption, and Measles
Author: John ArmstrongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronic diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
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 Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
Author: Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London
Author: The British and Foreign Medical Review
Author: Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery, Part III vol 10
Author: Pam LieskePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040245471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
By reprinting in facsimile primary texts on eighteenth-century midwifery and childbirth, this comprehensive twelve-volume collection gives readers a much deeper, more nuanced understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour.
The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Desire and Disorder
Author: Candace WardPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838756485
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This study situates 18th-century medical fever texts in the broader frame-work of British sentimental culture, explores representations of the fevered bodies, and the ways such representations reveal cultural anxieties along gender, race, and class lines.