The Mystery of Childbed Fever: a 19th Century Understanding of Puerperal Fever, William Potts Dewees By Madeline Brown An accelerated pulse, extreme abdominal pain, bloating, teeth-chattering chills, weakness, and decreased milk production were all signs of a mother stricken with childbed fever [1]. In the nineteenth century, it was often fatal. The first American epidemics […]
History of Medicine Book of the Week: A Treatise on the Disease of Females (1831)
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