The tragedy of childbed fever / Irvine Loudon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loudon, Irvine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puerperal septicemia--History.

Puerperal septicemia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 236 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Childbed fever was by far the most common cause of deaths associated with childbirth up to World War 2, throughout Europe. This is a detailed account of this tragic disease from its recognition in the 18th century.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

An Introduction to Puerperal Fever

Case Histories of Puerperal Fever

The Clinical Features of Puerperal Fever

The Pathology of Puerperal Fever

Nomenclature and the Synonyms for Puerperal Fever

Measuring Mortality due to Puerperal Fever

The Bacteriology of Puerperal Fever

The Link between Puerperal Fever and Erysipelas

Overview

Puerperal Fever in the Eighteenth Century

The First Appearance of the Term ÔPuerperal FeverÕ

The Recognition of Puerperal Fever as a Separate Disease

Early Views on the Nature and Causes of Puerperal Fever

Charles White and the Prevention of Puerperal Fever

The Treatment of Puerperal Fever

Gordon of Aberdeen

Gordon's Treatise

The Link with Erysipelas

Treatment

The Epidemic and the Treatise

The Reception of Gordon's Work

Epidemic Puerperal Fever in Towns

The Frequency of Town Epidemics

The Abingdon Epidemic

Other Epidemics

Epidemics Spread by Doctors and Midwives

Erysipelas and Puerperal Fever in the USA

Oliver Wendell Holmes and Puerperal Fever

Puerperal Fever and the Lying-in Hospitals

The Establishment of Lying-in (Maternity) Hospitals

Death in the Lying-in Hospitals

Descriptions of Hospital Epidemics

The Cause of Hospital Epidemics

Puerperal Fever: Causes and Contagion

Changing Definitions of Fevers

Contagionism, Anticontagionism, and Puerperal Fever

Contagions, Infections, and Miasmas

Explaining Epidemics of Puerperal Fever

ConÞguration, Contamination, and Predisposition

Clarity and Confusion

James Young Simpson and Puerperal Fever

Semmelweis

Semmelweis Arrives in Vienna

The Two Clinics

The Introduction of Antisepsis

Semmelweis's Concepts of the Etiology of Puerperal Fever

The Dissemination of Semmelweis's Doctrines.

The Illness and Death of Semmelweis

The Influence of Semmelweis

Appendix. A Brief Chronology of the Life and Work of Ignaz Semmelweis

Monocausalists, Multicausalists, and Germ Theory

Monocausalists and Multicausalists

Mayrhofer and the Beginnings of Germ Theory in Relation to Puerperal Fever

The Views of Dr Barnes and Professor Leishman

The Meetings in Paris and London

Pasteur and Hervieux

Pasteur and Doleris

Should Lying-in Hospitals be Abolished?

Lister and Antisepsis

The Story of Antisepsis

Listerian Antisepsis in Surgical Practice

Listerian Antisepsis in Obstetrics

On Reputations, Statues, and Prizes: The Resurrection of Semmelweis

Puerperal Fever in the Early Twentieth Century

The Optimism Arising from Antisepsis

The Decline in Puerperal Fever between 1890 and 1912

Puerperal Fever and Midwives in North-West Europe

Puerperal Fever, Midwives, and General Practitioners

General Practice and Midwifery in the Early 1900s

Puerperal Fever, 1910-1935

Puerperal Fever: A Curable Disease

Immunotherapy and Chemotherapy

Paul Ehrlich and German Research

Almroth Wright and British Research

Domagk and Prontosil

Colebrook and the Introduction of the Sulphonamides

The Impact of the Sulphonamides

Post-antibiotic Epidemics of Puerperal Fever

The Epidemiology of Puerperal Fever

Endemic and Epidemic Puerperal Fever

Mortality due to Puerperal Fever

The Group A Streptococcus

The Carrier State

Secular Trends and Virulence

The Relationship of Puerperal Fever to other Streptococcal Diseases

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786610757558

0-19-154228-8

1-280-75755-8

OCLC:

1027135051